Talk:Chipping Sodbury
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All of the Sodburys are referred to in the Domesday book. Old and Chipping Sodbury were given to Crassus as britric land. He then divided them formalising the market portion of the holding. I doubt, however, it is fair to say that he founded either. The existence of the Sodburys precedes William the Conqueror's land seizures by many years.
Oh...! and we locals and ex-locals call it the "Sodding Chippery". Your author must have come from the posh end of town... ;-). It is also generally accepted by the locals that the genteelly-named Horse Street was originally known as Whores Street!
Nothing about the very nice beer festival - now well established.
Another famous feature of the town is the number of pubs servicing the town centre.
The Beaufort Hunt The Boot The George The Grapes - Now regretably a curry house called the Tudor Raj. Uggh! The Portcullis The Royal Oak
The running joke used to be that if all the local population decided to go out at the same time, they could all get a seat.
The town is twinned with Cesson, France and one other.
--DavidP 20:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
