Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SODBURY (Little)

SODBURY (Little), a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; 3¾ miles E by N of Yate r. station. Post town, Chipping-Sodbury. Acres, 1,071. Real property, £1,769. Pop., 143. Houses, 26. The manor belongs to W. H. H. Hartley, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £235.* Patron, W. H. H. Hartley, Esq. The church was built in 1859. Tyndale, the translator of the Scriptures, was for some time a resident.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Sodbury CP/AP       Chipping Sodbury RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: LITTLE SODBURY     |     SODBURY     |     SODBURY LITTLE
Place: Little Sodbury

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