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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 width was to accommodate a substantial market held from the Middle Ages, the source of the epithet “Chipping” which comes from an old word for market. (It first appears in the town’s name in 1452.) The other element of the town’s name, “Sodbury”, is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon for “Soppa’s stronghold”.
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Sodbury (Chipping), a small town, and 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. It is a seat of petty-sessions, and a polling-place; is governed by a bailiff and 12 burgesses; and has a head post-office, a banking ...
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 ...
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Chipping-Sodbury, a small market-town, the head of a poor law union and county court district, and a parish in Gloucestershire. The town stands on a declivity, adjacent to the river Frome, 2 miles SE of Yate station on the M.R., and 10½ NE of Bristol, and has a head post office. It is governed by a bailiff and 10 burgesses, and has a town hall ...
