Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a town in the unitary authority South Gloucestershire in England. Chipping Sodbury has 6,660 inhabitants (2001) and is located near Bristol.

The town was founded by William Cassius, Lord of Sodbury, in the 12th century and has always been a market town; therefore is also the source name component chipping. The main street is lined with a row of houses from the 17th century; and there is a built in 1460 property Tudor. Chipping Sodbury in 1903 by the Great Western Railway connected to the railway network; the station was closed in 1961.

Chipping Sodbury formerly belonged to the county of Gloucestershire. In 1974, the place became a city in the newly formed county of Avon County and was part of the district Northavon. This county was, however, dissolved in 1996; since Chipping Sodbury belongs to the independent authority ( Unitary Authority) South Gloucestershire.

A number of sources give Chipping Sodbury as the birthplace of Harry Potter author JK Rowling, but other sources (among their official website ), according to them is in the neighboring Yate born.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Joe Fry, race car driver
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