we’ll be flying into Heathrow next June. Headed to Chipping on Campden for our stay. want to visit Stratford, Oxford for certain. Rent car in London to drive to Chipping or just use train\bus for travels? Any advice appreciated. Went to London last year so concentrating on relaxing days in the Cotswolds.
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UK
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I suggest getting the train from London to somewhere like Oxford; pick up a car rental there.
The town you’re staying in is called Chipping Campden, not Chipping on Campden and should not be referred to as “Chipping.” This is because the word “chipping” is an old word for market and there are several towns called Chipping [something] - including Chipping Norton not far away.
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Land of La
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Rent the car in Oxford.
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OP
Atlanta
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Thank you for the clarification. Appreciate any and all advice.
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We stayed in The Volunteer Inn at Chipping Campden in 2017 for six nights, using it as a base to do the Cotswolds, Oxford, Blenheim Palace and Stratford upon Avon.
The Inn has the best pub in town and a great Indian restaurant, as well as spacious rooms.
Not sure I would recommend spending more than a week there, perhaps you can detail what other places that you expect to visit while there.
A Rental car makes it way easier to do what we did. There is no direct train to Chipping Campden.
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Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
34778 posts
don't rent a car >in< London because of all the extra costs and very likely very slow traffic, for lots of reasons. Go out of town to get one if you want one.
a small piece of advice that you may have noticed on your last trip. We don't use part of a name - we spell it out. There are so many similar place names and unlike the american custom of dropping the second word in the name of a road we use the whole thing. There is often a town named "XYZ" as well as XYZ Road, XYZ Close, XYZ Court, XYZ Street and so on, and often other words are used in the middle, such as Tottenham, Tottenham Court, Tottenham Court Road, Tottenham station, Tottenham Court Underground station.
What drew me to mention it is your treatments of the beautiful market town of Chipping Campden. Chipping is an Old English world which means market place or market, which in turn comes from a Saxon word for "buy".. A few miles the other side of Stow on the Wold is a larger town called Chipping Norton, and there are other similar.
The country is full of Market Towns or Market-Charter Towns, which are allowed to have an outdoor market usually in the market square or sometimes an indoor market - the charter having been granted often centuries ago... Chipping Campden's charter was granted on 30 Jul 1247, by King Henry III to Roger de Somery.