Talk:Chipping Sodbury

All of the Sodburys are referred to in the Domesday book. Old and Chipping Sodbury were given to Crassus as britric land. He then divided them formalising the market portion of the holding. I doubt, however, it is fair to say that he founded either. The existence of the Sodburys precedes William the Conqueror's land seizures by many years.

Oh...! and we locals and ex-locals call it the "Sodding Chippery". Your author must have come from the posh end of town... ;-). It is also generally accepted by the locals that the genteelly-named Horse Street was originally known as Whores Street!

Nothing about the very nice beer festival - now well established.

Another famous feature of the town is the number of pubs servicing the town centre.

The Beaufort Hunt The Boot The George The Grapes - Now regretably a curry house called the Tudor Raj. Uggh! The Portcullis The Royal Oak

The running joke used to be that if all the local population decided to go out at the same time, they could all get a seat.

The town is twinned with Cesson, France and one other.

--DavidP 20:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I too have never heard it call 'sodding chippery'...ever. It seems slightly inaccurate to say that James Dyson lives 'just down the road', can there be some accurate scale inserted? Also Edward Jenner did not reside in Chipping Sodbury, he only did some medical training in the town.

Re Edward Jenner - I have changed "Notable inhabitants" to "Notable people". Biscuittin (talk) 22:34, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Railway Station

Whereabouts was chipping sodbury railway station? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.237.94.56 (talk) 03:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

On the A432 just after the Smarts Green roundabout head toward Old Sodbury for approx. 300 metres, right onto Station Close.

After the station closed there was a coal merchant using the old station buildings. The signal box was on the other side of the line. There were two platform sidings off the main-line. there were also engine sheds and sidings on the Station Close side.

For a few years after the station closed, there remained a passenger bridge between the two platforms, it quickly deteriorated and was removed approx. 1965. The Signal box remained until the late 70s, maybe even later. But looking at the aerial photos all the station buildings seem to have disappeared. AerialView CS Staion

The Station buildings were just behind the houses on Station close. There used to be a path across the 'Blanchards' bridge leading to the 'south' platform. Still looks fairly passable. Where this path meets the 'drainage ditch' is the approximate location of the Signal box. It can just be seen using the bird's eye view on the map. Jml77 (talk) 16:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Sodbury Town Council

The link to the Sodbury Town Council has been pirated. --Oldontarian (talk) 10:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)