JOURNAL <ii the ASSOCIATION OF SMALL SHTAV NEWS HISTORIC TOWNS AND VILLAGES 2005 Issue Number 3 of the UK SUMMER PARTY IN BRUTON On other pages Chipping Campden Landmark Trust Tribute to Dr H.Lane ASHTAV Local miscellany The Inspector Says.. Protect your ATM Summer Party Hydrology Revisited eritage Link thinks Monkey Bikes Anne's Solar Dream Visit to a Brickworks Can't compute ... ASHTAV Where have All .... Fordingbridge AGM 23 Lanes, Boutique Park 24 ASHTAV AGM SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER I-OR ") NGBR L)GE DO PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND ORE DETAILS ON TH BACK COVER PARTY PROGRAMME NETWORK LUNCHEON THE BULL BRUTON: THE INSIDE STOIO JOHN BISHTON CANTS MILL HYDROLOGY MILLING GARDEN PARTY TEA ustus more coverage on the centre page merchant in Chaucer's 'Canterbury CHIPPING Talcs': CAMPDEN i OVlt/rc/ii/tit n-a.it/ior m't/i fcrfiut! fjortf, Herbert Lane's ,'jn rnotiU'fcyv /tJtrf/tyi} cji fyeTSB Itv ■Mil-, resting place Coijcji itU iwL'ifa FfauiiiCru.i&li Eovvr {tut, 7Jis£oota cftiApoiTjidre luufjl'tris/y; "1 thank God and ever shall *Jji.i rociis fia sjiufijai<scfomj3tiefy, It is the sheepe hath payed wcuiiujiqe a/way t/uyjicrco c(~/ih uy for all." What were Chipping Campden's qualities that enticed Herbert Lane to live there? His library and his meticulous notes reveal just how much he knew about small towns across Europe and bow passionately he cared for them. He had read G.M.Trevelyn's description of Campden : "the most beautiful village street now left in the island". An inveterate traveller by public transport, he possessed first-hand knowledge of so many places, so what extra dowry did Chipping Campden bring to their marriage? Chipping Campden is remarkable for it has remained the same size tor seven hundred years. Physically, it has renewed itself, from wood to stone and applied new facades to old dwellings but in its beginning is its ending. Chipping Campden's High Street curves gently down a hill and is lined on both sides by human-sized houses and properties all of made from the warm, yellow Cotswold stone and ASHTAV members' eyes will sparkle r'Wiffiam when they hear that there isn't n single tpiece of plastic glazing in sight. C/vLerncriaf effijy in Originally, a market town serving the (jamjufe | myriad or farmers on the hills around, ©hipping Campden was synonymous with the golden fleece to burghers in Calais, Ypres and Ghent who prized .,.. Cotswold wool for .its long staple. (Fortunately for us, one local 'entrepreneur wove wool from [■"Cqtswold Lions" into Minierbing more durable: theiextfavagaiUsjjjgrilh Church.* of St James, William CSivvi'l was this [local magnate and this "in.t-.irr staplei » may havei iIxvn a modelit,'lor tie Chaucer also explains the trading vicar's ceremonial cope from 1400. Ashbee's Utopian project was method with restrictive practices that Queen Mary commanded that rhe doomed because quality came first has parallels with today where goods copies of these frontals he hung on and last and volume, price and are designed in England, fashioned in the high altar of Westminster Abbey delivery were considered bagatelles. China from wool that is imported when her husband was crowned The Guild collapsed in 1907. from elsewhere before being brought King George V in 1912. back through controlled portals into the European common market: Charles Robert Ashbee like the lytelle londe of Flauiulres is Herbert Lane came from London. But a staple to other londes, ivvys, But, when this visionary architect And alle that growetih in Flaundres, and social thinker relocated to greyn and scde, Campden from the East End of May not a moneth fynde hem mete London in 1902, he brought a and hrede. great social experiment: an "Arts What hath thenne Flaundres, be Flemmyngis leffe or lothe and Crafts" Guild of 150 men, But a lytdUe madere and Flemmyshe women, and children transferred to cloothe? this rural, medieval backwater. By drapynge of our wolle in Chipping Campden a century ago substaunce was very different from the Lyvene here comons, this is here gentrified, smart town of today. Silver cup made in Campden in 1903 governaunce; Campdenp was emerginggg from a long period of decline. Demand for at ease, property was low so rents were dirt The Guild's silversmith: Harts' Thus moste hem sterve, or wyth us cheap. The town exuded a survives to this day in die former silk most have peasse tumbledown distress that appealed mill in Sheep Street. The benches to romantic artists, but living brought to Campden from the Mile William was buried in front (if the conditions challenged those brought End Road a hundred years ago altar in 1401 under a splendid large up on running water in the garrets remain in use. The survival of this memorial brass of himself and his of the East End: washing was a family business is remarkable. In the wife Marionna, commemorating communal activity and food was early years the family ran a small 1 he rlower of the Wool Merchants j-Aiir- i ii ti- i ii cooked over open fires. Ashbee holding, early mornings and of All cngland . His lovely house founded his Campden School of evenings would be spent tending the with carved stonework nestles Arts and Crafts to provide trained pigs with the filigree working at amongst a terrace of later houses apprentices to support his self-taught silver sandwiched in between. built in a similar style in Campden Guild's efforts. Eight workshops High Street; how many woolstaplers lovingly created everything from from Calais have been entertained silverware to books. Interestingly, there on best English lamb looked one of the groups used the local mill after by Grevefs team of six to weave silk - just like Gant's Mill servants? Incidentally, William's in Bruton that ASHTAV members house sports a sun-dial and visited this summer. Aesthetic Campden is a treasure house for excellence through comradeship and hunters of gnomons and nodi. social duty was their goal. Transporting and marketing did f Hart s silversmiths seen Campden Church houses two pieces neither appeared on the apprentices' during Heritage Open Days, of ancient embroidered cloth that curriculum nor on Ashbee's radar. 2005 showing benches brought are vital to our knowledge of Smart shops such as Lihertys came, from the East End of London mediaeval church vestments: The saw and copied in sweat shops. a century aeo. altar hangings date from 1 500, and a ASHTAV NEWS 2005 issue 3 THE LANDMARK TRUST AND CHIPPING CAMPDEN Open doors during Heritage Open Hays, 2005 in one of the two Banqueting Halls that survive from Old Campden House. The twin banqueting halls have been restored by THE LANDMARK TRUST, the 40 year old charity that cares for neglected historic buildings and secures rhem by renting them out as holiday homes. How Herbert Lane must have been delighted to see these miniature jewels being rescued and brought to useful life just yards behind his home. n Almhouscs contemporaneous Campden Parisii Churcli viewed rrom rlil- site l>I with Old Campden House OKI Campden Hous OM Campden I louse from ;i posthumous drawing of William Hughes (British Museum) LCampden House was built for Sir Baptist Hicks below St James Parish Church around 161 3. Clever flattery and ^financial support of King James 1 had garnered a fortune for Hicks who was created Lord Campden. The result: as two magnificent houses, one in Kensington and this one in Campden. The Chipping Campden House wa Jburnt by Royalists in 1645 to deny it to Cromwellian forces. Many of the stone features were robbed andnow adorn and give unity to modern Campden High Street. For more about THE LANDMARK TRUST visit www.lan.drnarktrust.org.uk or phone 01628 825925 He then went on to a Language Dr Herbert Arthur Lane School in Heidelberg to learn Herbert cared deeply about Britain, German, needed to complete his and, in particular, England. He Born: WansteaJ on 4 June Doctorate in Economics at the lived long enough to see life in 1928 University of Cologne where his market towns and across the Died: Chipping Campden on thesis had to be presented in countryside changing. Heritage, 20 July 2005 German. The problems of recon character, and beauty were being structing the infrastructure and eroded and Herbert didn't like what VICE PRESIDENT : ASHTAV economy of war-ravaged Europe he saw. Suffering in silence was not fascinated Herbert and he spent Herbert's style. So, he became a Herbert Lane touched the lives of time travelling extensively across zealot and he channelled bis those whom he met or knew in Europe to gain an understanding of prodigious energies into the never to he forgotten ways. He was the subject. He was a talented formation of a campaign. That's a highly intelligent man who was linguist so by the time he had how the Association of Small widely travelled, linguistically gifted, finished his travels he'd mastered Historic Towns and Villages came and whose analytical prowess as an not only German but also French, into being in the late 1980's. In a economist was recognised during Danish and Spanish and had nutshell, it was The Civic Trust for his working life. He was a perpetual encountered Finnish. Later, in a smaller towns and villages. Herbert scholar and had an open and typically trenchant statement, was its co-founder and its chief pros- inquisitive approach to every new Herbert blamed his inability to elytiscr. If you were not given to challenge that life offered. He was master the Finnish language on ..