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Chipping Sodbury Is 9 Miles Miles 9 Is Sodbury Chipping CIRENCESTER Printed on recycled paper containing a minimum of 75% post-consumer waste post-consumer 75% of minimum a containing paper recycled on Printed S S 12 10 8322 • DESIGN CREATIVE SGC | | X42, 482, 483, 581, 620, 622. 620, 581, 483, 482, X42, X27, 41, 84, 86, 202, 222, 342, 342, 222, 202, 86, 84, 41, X27, TROWBRIDGE WESTON-SUPER-MARE Bus Services: Bus BATH KEYNSHAM Yate (2miles) Yate BRISTOL CHIPPENHAM GREEN Nearest Railway Station – – Station Railway Nearest EMERSONS PATCHWAY SODBURY Public transport: transport: Public CHIPPING SWINDON from M4 (J18) (J18) M4 from THORNBURY KINGSWOOD TETBURY CHEPSTOW from M5 (J14) and just 5 miles miles 5 just and (J14) M5 from DURSLEY Chipping Sodbury is 9 miles miles 9 is Sodbury Chipping CIRENCESTER STROUD Free Parking Free & WYE VALLEY WYE & DEAN FOREST DEAN [2012] Ordnance Survey [100023410] Car: By © Crown copyright and database rights and copyright Crown © GLOUCESTER CHELTENHAM CIRCULAR WALK & Sodbury Chipping to Getting TREASURE HUNT muddy. be times some at may Street is steep. The path along by the river Frome Frome river the by along path The steep. is Street wheelchair friendly and that Brook Brook that and friendly wheelchair which are pushchair friendly but not not but friendly pushchair are which Chipping Sodbury Street Brook to access giving steps Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the (Jo) Rowling was born In the twentieth century the quarries Sodbury. Chipping Sodbury was considered a safe production of this leaflet. Also to Jim Elsworth, Laura Lee Phillips, Rich McD and South Gloucestershire in Chipping Sodbury were considerably enlarged to place, as it was far enough from Bristol to prevent large are there that aware be please For those with access diffi culties culties diffi access with those For Council. Photographs are the property of Rich McD War Memorial Maternity Hospital in extract limestone for road stone escape or conspiracy. The officers had an 8pm ii Photography. July 1965. Bloomsbury Children’s and aggregates. Carboniferous curfew, and could walk only a mile along the road, q Publishing suggest: - ‘Such a funny- Limestone was formed 350 million but in all other respects were ‘free’. all. to accessible easily T he Millennium Garden Millennium he sounding name for a birthplace may years ago from the bed of a tropical p 15th Century Seal is walk this of majority The town. winning award have contributed to her talent for coral sea teeming with a rich array of The predominantly rural character of Chipping Bloom in Britain a is Sodbury Chipping why collecting odd names’. The town’s marine life. You can see one type of Sodbury means that it is still the centre for hunting. p realise will you year, of time any at around, walk Old name ‘Chipping’ comes from the coral, called Lithostrotion, in the large It lies within the territory of the Badminton based you As visit. to place interesting an Cotswolds T own Chest old word for market and Sodbury wall just past the church as you walk Beaufort Hunt. Each May, the annual Badminton the of edge the on lying town picturesque this is recorded in Anglo Saxon as from the car park towards the High Horse Trials are held just 6 miles from the centre of making lines roof and styles building of variety Soppanbyrig which meant ‘Soppa’s Street. Chipping Sodbury. a are There streets. main the in properties listed fort’ or ‘Soppa’s stronghold’. 120 over with area conservation a is plan, town Chipping Sodbury is the home i If you are able to go inside No 29 12 One of the most attractive features inside medieval original and country the in widest the to a population of approximately 5,000 High Street (Cotswold Vintners) you will St John the Baptist Church is the almost unique of one be to thought street, market wide its with residents. be able to see that the ceiling is being held up by a pillar pulpit. This was rediscovered behind a triple town, market beautiful this like, you wherever post from an old four poster bed. Don’t worry it is decker pulpit, during the Victorian restoration. nish fi and Start resist. can you hostelries and Chipping Sodbury was built in the 12th century, structurally safe now. It was at this time that most of the memorials were cafes the of many how on depending choose, you A when the then owner of the Sodbury estates, removed to the bell chamber. The 13th century as long as or little as taking Gloucestershire, of Chipping Sodbury Chipping , in the south south the in , William Crassus, planned a ‘new town’, based on The Ridings is now used by football, rugby, golf, octagonal bowled Font is at the opposite end of through Treasure Hunt Treasure walk circular , , q a grid pattern, whereby long strips of land with running, tennis & cricket enthusiasts. The area now the church to St Katherine’s chapel, named after and Chipping Sodbury Mop Fair Mop Sodbury Chipping a narrow dwelling fronting on to the wide market known as Chipping Sodbury, was once part of the the patron saint of weavers, it houses the tomb of street, remains largely unaltered today. The feudal Saxon Kingdom of Mercia which for a while came Sir John Walshe; King’s champion at Henry VIII’s system of burgage plots created a medieval middle under the control of the Danes. It is thought that coronation in 1509. As tutor to his children he class of tenants who paid rent to the local landlord 'Ridings' might have been of Danish origin. employed William Tyndale, who, in 1522, started his enabling them to earn a living at their various crafts translation of The New Testament. and businesses. Chipping Sodbury was known for When Chipping Sodbury developed into a its weaving and leather trades. commercial centre, the inhabitants dwelt in The wool trade, weaving of cloth, tanning of 'Burgage' plots, but having no land to graze their leather, carriage of coal & lime, limestone quarrying, Built on the cross-roads of the east-west route animals the 'Ridings' became the Borough’s the malt trade and of course farming have all been Oxford to Bristol, which came across the common, common grazing ground. Animals were grazed on prominent industries in Chipping Sodbury over the up what are now Hatters Lane, Broad Street the Stub Riding and turned onto the Mead Riding years. During the 17th Century, Daniel Defoe, the and High Street then on to Bristol, crossing the after crops had been gathered. At one time the novelist who wrote Robinson Crusoe, commented north-south route between Kingswood Abbey, 'Ridings' was a home for a pest house in which that Chipping Sodbury had one of the greatest Gloucestershire and Keynsham Abbey – the old local people with infectious diseases were housed Cheese Markets in England. pilgrim’s way and the salt route from Droitwich, well away from the main town. The Millennium q which passed through Chipping Sodbury via Brook Garden, a quiet place to rest, is located at the start Chipping Sodbury has always been a place for St John the Baptist Church St and in to Horseshoe Lane and on to Keynsham of the Ridings, near to the childrens’ playground in people to find accommodation as they passed and the South. St John’s Way. through. p Mayor's Chair The main street through Chipping Sodbury was Mop Fairs are held over one weekend in March known as High Street until about 1800 when it and again in September every year, traditionally was divided into High Street and Broad Street at Lady Day and Michelmas. One end of the town p Carboniferous Limestone (Lithostrotion) Limestone Carboniferous Wickwar Road. In medieval times and up to the late becomes traffic free on a Friday night and Saturday 18th century buildings stood in the middle of Broad for fairground attractions to entertain all comers. Street – The Shambles or Butcher’s Quarters near There has been a long tradition of Mop Fairs, Chipping the Wickwar Road end and the Market Building originally they were held to allow farm workers, near the Town Cross. labourers and servants, to find new employment. Attending the Mop Fair wearing an emblem of their Drovers came through Chipping Sodbury driving trade on their lapel, indicated to potential employers CIRCULAR WALK & cattle, sheep, geese etc on their way to markets they were looking to be hired. TREASUSodburyRE HUNT further to the east and even on to London. Behind 13 Tudor House is accommodation once used to In the mid-18th century, Chipping Sodbury was When the Town Hall is open to the public, pop www.yateandchippingsodbury.co.uk house the drovers en-route. The route probably considered a safe place to stay for the officers in and see the various artefacts from the past. As passed through Old Sodbury and across what is captured by the Bristol Privateers. At this time you enter the first room you will see the magnificent now the A46 and on towards Chippenham. piracy was illegal but privateering was not. A medieval fireplace on the left. What is thought to be privateer was supposed to have been given a the Mayor’s chair incorporating the Seal can also nform t I ati is on r Much of Chipping Sodbury is built from ‘letter of Marque’ from the government allowing be seen near here. u C o e T n t e r locally quarried rock. However, while a them to attack and steal from merchant ships e T • • C variety of stone is evident in the buildings of certain countries.
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