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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 ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Horton like this: HORTON, a village and a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester. The village stands among the Cotswolds, 3 ¼ miles NE of Chipping-Sodbury, and 4¾ ENE of Yate r. station.—The parish comprises 3, 540 acres; and its post town is ...
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.
Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Little Sodbury like this: SODBURY (Little), a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; 3¾ miles E by N of Yate r. station. Post town, Chipping-Sodbury. Acres, 1,071. Real property, £1,769. Pop., 143.
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 ...
borough of Chipping Sodbury, established at the western end of the parish in the 13th century. The growth of Chipping Sodbury in the later 20th century has led to the expansion of the urban area into part of the ancient parish, but the majority of Old Sodbury remains rural in character. Landscape, Settlement and Buildings Boundaries and Parish ...
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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 the foot of a hill on the little Avon, near to the source of that stream, on the ...
