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Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a market town in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

Chipping Sodbury
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The place

Chipping Sodbury is a market town 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. It is the main settlement in the civil parish of Sodbury, which also includes the village of Old Sodbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chipping Sodbury

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Dodington Park

    Dodington Park is a country house and estate in Dodington, South Gloucestershire, England. The house was built by James Wyatt for Christopher Bethell Codrington.

    3.4 km · country house in Gloucestershire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St James the Elder, Horton

    St James the Elder, Horton is a parish church in Horton, Gloucestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.

    4.8 km · church in South Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Acton Court

    Acton Court is the historic manor house of the manor of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, England. It is a grade I listed building of Tudor architecture and was recently restored.

    5.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Horton Court

    Horton Court is a stone-built 16th century manor house in Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, England. It is a grade I listed building.

    4.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in South Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Kingsgate Park

    Sundridge Park, BS37 4EP (between Sundridge Park and Scott Way, there are six entrances in total).

  2. 02
    The Road to Nowhere

From Wikivoyage: Chipping Sodbury, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

All major foods catered for. McDonald's in town.

From Wikivoyage: Chipping Sodbury, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Chipping Sodbury

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 28 km · Cardiff (CWL), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 111 km
Stations
Yate railway station, 2.6 km · Iron Acton railway station, 5.3 km · Chipping Sodbury railway station, 1.2 km
  • Cardiff → Chipping Sodbury
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
  • London → Chipping Sodbury
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chipping Sodbury
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chipping Sodbury

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chipping Sodbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    121 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    484 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    520 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    528 km

If you know how people move in Chipping Sodbury – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is 17 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Yatetown in Gloucestershire, England1.7 km
  • Westerleighvillage in Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK4 km
  • Frampton Cotterellvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, UK6 km
  • Iron Actonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK4.9 km
  • Tormartonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK5.3 km
  • Dodingtonvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK3.1 km