Pest Control in Chipping Campden

Chipping Campden is one of the jewels of the Cotswolds, a beautifully preserved market town with a long, curving High Street of honey-coloured stone buildings dating from the medieval wool trade. The town sits in a valley on the northern edge of the Cotswold hills, surrounded by rolling farmland and the kind of dry stone walls that define this landscape. Those stone buildings and walls are lovely to look at but they do have a weakness when it comes to pests. Cotswold stone has natural joints and fissures and as mortar ages and shrinks the gaps become routes for mice to enter buildings. Mouse control is one of the most common pest services we provide in Chipping Campden and proofing stone buildings takes skill and sensitivity to the heritage of the structures.

The farmland surrounding the town supports rats, which work the field margins and hedgerow lines before moving toward any building that offers food or shelter. The older parts of the town centre, with their deep cellars and ageing drainage, can also attract rats through the underground network. Rat control here often involves understanding the routes the rats are using beneath the surface as well as what is going on above ground.

Chipping Campden draws visitors year-round and the restaurants, tea rooms and food shops along the High Street generate the kind of waste that rodents find appealing. The large gardens behind the High Street properties, some of which run down to the small stream at the bottom of the valley, support grey squirrels and other wildlife. Wasp nests are a regular summer issue, found in old stone walls, garden outbuildings, beneath stone roof tiles and in loft spaces. The conservation area status of the town means that any pest proofing work needs to be done carefully, respecting the materials and appearance of these historic buildings.