“Welcome to our beautiful town, Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. Campden is one of the most beautiful tourist destinations in the UK. Take a pictorial tour and get a taste of Olde Cotswold England – but if you really want to appreciate the feeling of staying in an old cotswold stone house in a town, hardly touched by the centuries, you’ll just have to come and visit us.” from www.chippingcampden.co.uk  

This is one of the only places I’ve come across that actually looks like the postcard.  Chipping Campden is eerily picturesque, in a manicured, clipped and tidy way.  With so much talk in the media about what it means to be English and about notions of community, identity and stereotypes, it was quite strange to visit a town that felt pathologically, quintessentially English. 

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