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

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.
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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.
- 01Dodington 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 - 02Parish 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 - 03Acton 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 - 04Horton 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Kingsgate Park
Sundridge Park, BS37 4EP (between Sundridge Park and Scott Way, there are six entrances in total).
- 02The Road to Nowhere
From Wikivoyage: Chipping Sodbury, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
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.
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 Sodbury55 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
- London → Chipping Sodbury157 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–21
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Chipping Sodbury110 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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- 02163 km
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If you know how people move in Chipping Sodbury – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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