Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• on Campsætena gemære 1005 KCD714 12th

• Campedene, Campedena 1086 DB 1190 P 1211–13,1220 Fees 1221 1232 Cl 1233 Berk 1236 Fees 1247 Ch 1492 Pat

• Chepyng Campedena 1287 Ass 1403 FF 1446 Pat

• Kampedene 1233 Cl 1236 Fees

• Compeden' 1221 Ass 1234 Cl

• Caumpeden(e) 1225 FF 1274 1275 Episc 1284 FF 1285 FA 1442 Pat

• Cheping Caumpeden(e), Chepyng Caumpeden(e) 1287 Ass 1315 BM 1323 Misc 1324 FF

• Kaumpeden' 1248 Ass

• Campden 1517 InqEncl 1535 VE 1586 Comm

• Chepyng Campden, Cheping Campden 1451 Pat 1461 MinAcct 1608 Harrowby

• Campden mercatus 1590 Camd

• Chipping Campden 1689 PR

Etymology

'Valley with enclosures', v. camp (gen.pl. campa ), denu . The town lies at the head of a valley formed between The Hoo and Westington Hill; the stream is called The Cam, but this appears to be a back- formation from Campden. The early forms with medial -e - in Campe - (Caumpe - is an AN variant) do not favour a derivation from OE  camp 'fight, battle', and Rudder's report of a tradition of a great battle between West Saxons and Mercians is not relevant to the history of the name (Rudder 319, BG ix, 354). The OE  form Campsætena gemære is elliptical, 'the boundary of the inhabitants of Campden' (with loss of the second el. of the p.n. which is frequent in folk-names in sǣte ). In 1287Ass 275, m. 9, Osbert de Staneby stated: 'there is no place in the county called Caumpedene by itself, only Cheping Caumpedene and Brode Caumpedene '. To distinguish it from Broad Campden (infra ), it is called 'Chipping' from OE  cēping 'market, market-place' (cf. the 1590 Lat  equivalent mercatus ), as in Chipping Sodbury (iii, 51infra ) or Chipping Norton (O 368); market rights were granted to Hugh de Gondeville c. 1180 and confirmed in 1247; the market is referred to in foro de Campedene 1248Ass 4d. The alternative affix 'Henmarsh' is from the district-name (230 supra ).