Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a market city within the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, south-west England, based in the 12th century with the aid of William Crassus. It is the predominant settlement within the civil parish of Sodbury, which additionally consists of the village of Old Sodbury. Little Sodbury is a close-by however separate civil parish. Sodbury parish council has elected to be known as Sodbury Town Council. At the 2001 census the population of Chipping Sodbury changed into 5,066, but within the ultimate decade the metropolis has come to be a part of a much large constructed-up place because of the rapid enlargement of close by Yate, with which it is contiguous to the west.

At the census the blended population of Yate and Chipping Sodbury was 26,855. Chipping Sodbury hosts a two times every year Mop Fair, generally the last weekends of March and September. The town holds a Festival Week in early June. There is a farmers' marketplace two times a month, on the second one and fourth Saturdays. East of the metropolis is the Chipping Sodbury Tunnel, a railway tunnel below the Cotswolds 2 miles 924 yards long, which became opened via the Great Western Railway in 1902.