Part 3: Cotswolds: Chipping Campden & Broadway

From Shrewsbury in Shropshire Anne drove us to her home in Chipping Campden near Stratford in the Cotswolds. The next morning we visited the larger elegant neighboring town, Broadway.

      We enjoyed the Broadway museum, a Tudor house built 1659-60

                                         Cabinet for storing produce

There is a great exhibit of artists and writers who lived/worked in Broadway: I especially love Sargent's Lily, Lily Rose (origianla in the Tate Britain in London

This is sheep country from WAY back. The mighty mechanized Leeds mills, the largest the world had seen, required increasing amounts of raw materials and the ever expanding British Empire would help to feed the savage beast, with wool being shipped in from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Such trade would continue well into the twentieth century, until the mighty mills finally fell silent as cheaper imports from the Far East flooded into Britain from the early 1960’s.

       The English love their candy and sweets! The food has greatly improved since my first trip in 1964!

Rebecca and Anne in front of Anne and Neil's 400 year old home,The Stapler's House on High Street. Anne in the front room.

   They have spent hours and hours developing their beautiful garden

                 The Chipping Campden Market and town hall

     I love the beautiful thatched roof homes and lovely gardens

Four guildsmen (silver, pottery, wool, and other products and crafts) in Sheep Street in 1903

Gate to the Manor House, banqueting house, church, fields, built in 15th century

While we ate out last dinner we watched the semi-finals of the European soccer cup (England beat the Netherlands, but lost in the final game to Spain. 

                 Town hall on High (the main)Street of Chipping Campden

Good-bye to lovely, cool England for the long flight home to SLC and then drive to Provo, where the pool at Pioneer Park and the Farmer's Market draw Saturday crowds despite the 100 degree temperature.

And home to family, friends and all the normal summer activities. Kristin Rose and grandkids visiting her mother-in-law Gae in rehab after a fall.