CHIPPING SODBURY, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Chipping Sodbury, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Slater's Directory of Gloucestershire for Sodbury, Wickwar and Iron Acton, 1850 by Paul A. Best. Added 17 Apr 2006.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Chipping Sodbury from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Names, Geographical

• "Chipping" (or cheping, to mean buying and selling) in place-names identifies a location where a market was held. Examples in other counties include High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) sometimes called Chipping Wycombe, Chipping Lambourne (Berkshire); and Cheapside in the City of London was so named because of the market which was held there.