In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chipping Sodbury like this:
SODBURY (Chipping), a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Gloucester. The town stands-on a declivity, adjacent to the river Frome, 1¾ mile E of Yate r. station, and 10½ NE of Bristol; is a seat of petty-sessions, and a polling place; is governed by a bailiff and 12 burgesses; and has a head post-office,‡ a banking office, two chief inns, an old town hall with rebuilt front, a police station, an ancient church with pinnacled tower, Baptist and Quakers' chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a literary society, a reading room and library, an endowed grammar-school, a national school, town-lands, £288, a market on the first Tuesday of every month, and fairs on Holy Thursday and 24 June.—The parish comprises 120 acres. ...
Real property, £2,805. Pop., 1,112. Houses, 249. The manor belongs to W. H. H. Hartley, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £167.* Patron, the Vicar of Old Sodbury.—The sub-district contains also 5 other parishes. Acres, 14,115. Pop., 5,252. Houses, 1,091. -The district comprehends also the sub-districts of Marshfield, Hawkesbury, and Iron-Acton; and comprises 62,356 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £8,087. Pop. in 1851, 18,256; in 1861, 18,763. Houses, 4,020. Marages in 1863, 76; births, 656,-of which 40 were illegitimate; deaths, 457,-of which 200 were at ages under 5 years, and 15 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60,944; births, 5,954; deaths, 3,591. The places of worship, in 1851, were 27 of the Church of England, with 7,913 sittings; 10 of Independents, with 2,049 s.; 5 of Baptists, with 1,105 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 120 s.; 1 of Unitarians, with 25 s.; 6 of Wesleyans, with 1,206 s.; 3 of Primitive Methodists, with 280 s.; 1 undefined, with 20 s.; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 120 s. The schools were 26 public day-schools, with 1,630 scholars; 32 private day-schools, with 496 s.; 31 Sunday schools, with 2,478 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 3 s. The workhouse is in Yate.
Chipping Sodbury through time
Chipping Sodbury is now part of South Gloucestershire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Gloucestershire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chipping Sodbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chipping Sodbury in South Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 17th April 2024
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