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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

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collecting odd names’. The town’s marine life. You can see one type of Sodbury means that it is still the centre for hunting. T p Old realise will you year, of time any at around, walk 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

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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

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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 Chipping Sodbury Mop Fair 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 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

St John the Baptist Church Baptist the John q St 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 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) 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

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T • • C variety of stone is evident in the buildings of certain countries. When Bristol Privateers, In the main stairway you can see the old Town h y i r The Tourist Information Centre, The Clock Tower, High Street, p bu ping Sod around the town, the most frequently used is captured a ship they would dock it in the Port Chest carved from a single block of oak and Chipping Sodbury, BS37 6AH. Tel: 01454 888686 Carboniferous Limestone, which has been of Bristol. The prisoners from these ships were strapped with iron bands. It was used to house the Email: [email protected] or visit: www.yateandchippingsodbury.co.uk quarried at Chipping Sodbury since the usually imprisoned, but officers above the rank of town records. Its keys, dating back to 1440 hang in or www.visitchippingsodbury.com Middle Ages. midshipman could be sent on parole to Chipping the case nearby along with the 1680 mayoral mace. to find details of events.

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Jubilee Park T Free Parking the shelter which was added in 1948. In 1995 part spell out the name of an imaginary group.

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U R 21 N E T C D S you can see where the site where the wartime air existence; in 1682 it was HE U L N C E L G 22 raid siren was situated. The siren rang out over The Crown Inn. A 17th L V LEAM M AN E C R C ARNOLD CT H 500 times during World War II; fortunately Chipping century cottage standing L L H ORSE ST I K LN Sodbury never suffered any bombing. on the right-hand side was incorporated into the LL BAC H 24 23 D R building and in 1790 the facade was added, to give it R D D 3 IEL No 26 High Street a Georgian appearance removing the original gables. HIGHF HOUNDS CL has late medieval origins, Notice the four false windows on the top floor, the altered in the 16th and 17th central windows on the level below are glazed centuries; it was presented but a few inches behind is a wall, this gives the to the town by Mr F Fox as symmetrical style symbolic of Georgian architecture. an Institute and Reading Room c. 1910. It had 13 The Town Hall was originally built in of raised cruck truss 22 At number 43 Horse Street history as a Literary Institution in 1870 and is also 10 Coppers Cottage, situated in The Parade, is 1452 as a Guild Hall. It has undergone construction, with a jettied you will find theMilestone thought to be the site of the much earlier Weavers’ named after ‘Copper’ the tramp that used to live in several renovations since then, firstly in first floor. Over the years dating back to when Horse Street Guild. In the centre of an important group of coped the outbuildings that were converted to the present 1738, then the Victorian Gothic facade this property has had many opened as the turnpike road. It gabled houses, note the oval windows in the attic. cottage. that still remains was added in 1858. changes. In the early 1900’s indicates a distance of exactly In the 1970’s the Town Hall was modernised and it was a lodging house, by 1950 it had been sub 108 miles to Hyde Park Corner in London. In the 4 No 39 High Street, 11 Jubilee Park is a re-opened after being greatly extended in 1981. It divided into cottages which became run down and 18th century milestones were compulsory on all known as Hobbs House, tranquil area where you is now under the Trusteeship of Chipping Sodbury derelict and were in danger of being demolished turnpike roads, to inform travellers of distances is where Tom and Henry can relax by the river. If you Town Lands Charity and used as a focus for but following renovation in 1956 became the head- and to help coaches keep to schedule and for Herbert, The Fabulous walk through the park and community events. It retains many original features quarters of the local Conservative Association. charging for changes of horses at the coaching Baker Brothers, of the 2012 cross the footbridge you including a medieval fireplace and 16th century inns. The distances were also used to calculate Channel 4 television series are both based. can walk back to Brook Street on the other side of timberwork. 19 There has been a Market postal charges before the uniform postal rate was The original grounds and the river and clearly view the bridge in Brook Street. Cross in Chipping Sodbury introduced in 1840. open baptistery were off 5 The Moda House used to be known as View Or you can walk through Ridge Woods Chipping 14 The George Hotel was since 1349. It was usual for a Hounds Road. Covering two House, an important townscape feature, closing Sodbury’s own nature reserve which runs along the first recorded in 1439, as cross to be erected where a 23 Town Pump the only other of the burgage plots, High the upper end of High Street, it looks down the edge of the disused Barnhill Quarry which provided overnight accommodation market was held, to remind surviving town pump underneath Street frontage was gained street to the beautiful Cotswold Hills in the distance. limestone for several centuries. To get from Brook by pilgrims on their way everyone that all dealings took which the well remains to this day. in 1886, with the opening of Built late 17th century and remodelled early-mid Street to Wickwar Road follow the Frome Valley between Kingswood Abbey place in the presence of God! the New Hall used initially as 18th century. In the late 1920’s it was the home Walkway. Wickwar Road near Wotton-Under-Edge and Keynsham Abbey. The original market cross 24 No 64 Horse a Sunday school room and and surgery of Dr. D H Sarafian who gave it the was originally only a short was superseded in 1553, parts of this Cross are Street, with two plaques on the then in 1965 as the Church. name ‘Moda’, after a suburb of Istanbul, where he road to the church and a 15 The Squire has a long history incorporated in the present day War Memorial wall. The first is the old Sun Alliance A new Church was built in grew up. It remained a home and surgery until the path to The Ridings. It was as a Coaching Inn since the 17th which stands near the site of the medieval Market Insurance Company disc which 1991 to cope with the ever growing congregation. doctor’s practice moved to Yate. The house was fully opened as a turnpike Century. Cross. The memorial is inscribed with the names of signified to the fire brigade that the sold and converted to a Hotel, in the 1970’s. It is road to the North in the late 1700’s. In the 1960’s those who fell in WWI and WWII. owner had paid his fire insurance and that, should In front of the Baptist church hall stands the only now a beautifully decorated B&B. a row of 16th century cottages stood on the 16 The Presbytery a fire occur, they would get paid. The second is statue in the town, a statue to Andrew James East side of the road but these were removed for was originally The Swan Inn dating Horse Street was opened up in the late 18th the lozenge shaped date stone, inscribed T 1797 Foxwell, a member of the church who raised money 6 The Friends Meeting road widening, The trotting horse trade sign was back to at least 1685. In 1838 it was century as a turnpike road out of town to London. M with carved mason’s craft tools of an upturned to build the Church and founded a renowned choral House, has been a private salvaged from the saddlers shop that faced on to purchased by Sarah Lunn for £1,300, It was an important route for travellers and cattle mortar board over crossed trowel and hammer with society. When he died in 1903 the Baptist Church residence since the 1980’s. Broad Street and now hangs above number 47 using the wealth she had inherited drovers. It boasts a variety of fascinating buildings a square and rule underneath. decided to erect a statue in his memory. It was It was built in 1692, after a High Street. from her deceased sister, who had been married to and mews houses all laid out in the original town erected outside the Reading Institute (No 26 High visit by George Fox, founder Philip St Martin Comte de Front, Sardinian Minister plan. No. 21, aptly named 20 Brick House, is the 25 Being a market town there was St) from 1904; it was moved in the early 1940’s to its of the Religious Society of Friends, as a Quaker 12 St John the Baptist to the Court of St James. She gave the building to only brick building in the main street. a constant need to water animals. present site to protect it from the ravages of traffic. Chapel and used as such until 1932. Since then Church built in 1284 the Catholic Church as the Unfortunately, no records remain of it has been used for meetings by various groups some 150 years after the Presbytery and the stables 21 No. 29, Melbourne the whereabouts of all the pumps in 27 The Old Grammar including the Women’s Institute and Jehovah’s town was laid out, the first at the back were converted House dated 1740, one of town but two pumps remain today. School was built on the Witnesses. During the 1940’s soldiers were billeted Chapel of Ease (The Mother to the 17 Church of St its previous owners moved The main pump and trough were erected in 1897, site of The Lamb Inn, in in part of this building. The private house beside the Church being at Old Sodbury) was dedicated on Lawrence. to Australia and became renovated in 1977, the 27 feet deep well beneath 1790. It is now in the care river at the bridge was one of the corn mills on the the site. Over the centuries the church has been an architect designing the pump still exists. Next to the pump is the of the Towns Lands Charity River Frome until the 1920’s. extended, the phases of construction can be seen Many of the premises in Broad Street are many buildings in Melbourne. This property was trough which commemorates the diamond jubilee and houses the library and meeting rooms. by the different styles of stonework, particularly reputed to be Elizabethan and some fine examples also owned by Daniel Ludlow, an apothecary who of Queen Victoria. The inscription reads “for use Between Dec 1943 and June 1944 the Old Originally the River Frome by the 104 feet tower and south aisle which were still exist. Of particular interest are the beautiful old employed an assistant who promoted the link of man and beast”. Long gone are the two ornate Grammar School was headquarters of 1st formed the northern boundary of added in the 15th century. The church underwent mullion windows and the very old door to No. 82. between cowpox and small pox. The assistant pillars which stood at each side of the trough and US Army, 165 Signal Photo Company who left Chipping Sodbury. The 20 mile major restoration in 1869, with a porch modified by subsequently went on to find fame as the man who which contained cups attached to chains for Chipping Sodbury to photograph the D Day (32 km) long River Frome, rises George Edmund Street, the architect who was also The name Hatters Lane is believed to have been spread vaccination against small pox around the human use. landings. in Dodington Park, travels through responsible for the new nave in Bristol Cathedral at derived from the weaving industry supplying the hat world – his name was Edward Jenner. Chipping Sodbury and flows in a the same time; he then went on to design the Royal trade in the neighbouring villages. 26 The Baptists have been south westerly direction through Courts of Justice in London. Although the church Horse Street once had a bar gate which stopped established in Chipping If you would like to extend your walk, you will find 18 additional routes; Ridge Woods, Frome Valley Walkway, to Bristol, joining the river Avon in Bristol’s Floating has a clock inside, it has never had hands or a face The Tudor House, built c.1460, is believed cattle wandering into or out of the town. Straying Sodbury since 1656. The The Monarchs Way, The Cotswold Way, are all nearby. Harbour. The river was used to power several mills it only indicates the time by the sound of its bells. to be the oldest private residence in Chipping cattle were put in the pound which stood near the firstBaptist church was Contact the Tourist Information Centre for further details. along its course in Chipping Sodbury. Notice there is a Sun dial on the side of the church. Sodbury. A Medieval galleried open hall house Boot Inn situated further along Horse Street. built in 1710.