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51°32′17″N2°23′38″W51.538°N 2.394°W. Chipping Sodbury is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated 13 miles (21 km) north-east of Bristol and directly east of Yate. The town was founded in the 12th century by William le Gros.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chipping Sodbury like this: SODBURY (Chipping), a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Gloucester. The town stands-on a declivity, adjacent to the river Frome, 1¾ mile E of Yate r. station, and 10½ NE of Bristol; is a seat of petty-sessions ...
The village of Great Badminton (Badminton) is located 6 miles east of Chipping Sodbury and 11 miles south-west of the Cotswold town of Tetbury. The name is particularly famous for the world class Badminton 3 Day Horse Trials held in Spring. The village sits on one of the most famous estates in Britain; the large estate of the Duke of Beaufort.
Chipping Sodbury. Yate is a medium sized-town in Gloucestershire. It is contiguous with Chipping Sodbury. Yate is a major shopping destination for the local area. Its neighbour, Chipping Sodbury, is a market town, notable for entrepreneurs, magical authors, and computer programming and high tech. Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The town of Chipping Sodbury and village of Old Sodbury are the main constituents of the parish of Sodbury (Little Sodbury has its own parish). The total population of the parish is over 5,000. Geographically it is a fairly large parish, including much farming land and describing an L shape stretching down The Ridge on its western side, and extending well to the east of Old Sodbury almost as ...
The Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury & Little Sodbury walk then climbs steeply to the top of the Cotswold escarpment. There, you cross the Iron Age hill fort of Woodcote Farm. Enclosed by double ramparts and a ditch, the Old Sodbury hill fort is impressive in size. It is believed the fort was also used by the Romans and the Saxon army.
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SODBURY, WICKWAR AND IRON ACTON. Sodbury is a parish in the upper division of Grumbalds Ash --- the market town, which is sometimes called Chipping - Sodbury, to distinguish it from two other Sodburys in this County --- is 108 miles w. by s. from London, 28 south from Gloucester, 11 n.e from Bristol, and about 14 n. from Bath ; is situated at ...
