Chipping Campden Christmas Market
The most perfect high street in the Cotswolds hosts its Christmas market each early December, with honey-gold limestone buildings lit by torches, stalls that seem to belong to another century and the smell of mulled wine drifting past the fourteenth-century Market Hall.
One of the most architecturally intact medieval wool towns in England: the High Street, the wool church, the Market Hall, and the Arts and Crafts legacy combine to make this a rare place where the built fabric alone justifies the journey.
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