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CHIPPING SODBURY, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries Cemeteries Census Directories

Gazetteers History Names, Geographical Social Life and Customs

Archives and Libraries

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

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the Chipping Sodbury War Memorial, recorded by Bill Dungey.

Census

• Gloucestershire - Census Returns 1841-1901 - all you ever wanted to know about the Census.

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.

History

• Virtual Yate and Chipping Sodbury - includes information about the Heritage Center, Images (several of The Mop Fair), Links and What's On.

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.

Social Life and Customs

• Chipping Sodbury Cricket Club has a most comprehensive section on the Club's history, stretching back to 1860. It provides information on Sodbury cricketers, including the famous Gloucestershire cricketing family - The Graces, and captures the essence of a past era - "cricket in Chipping Sodbury was played by a bunch of well dressed men, not surprising when the majority were Solicitors and Doctors..."

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