Little Sodbury

Little Sodbury
The church of St. Adeline, Little Sodbury
Little Sodbury  Little Sodbury shown within Gloucestershire
Population	113 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	ST726822
Unitary authority	South Gloucestershire
Ceremonial county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRISTOL
Postcode district	BS37
Dialling code	01454
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Avon
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Northavon
List of places UK England Gloucestershire

Coordinates: 51°32′52″N 2°20′55″W / 51.547740°N 2.348686°W

Little Sodbury is an English village in South Gloucestershire, located between Chipping Sodbury, to the West, Old Sodbury to the South, Badminton, and the A46 road to the East and Horton and Hawkesbury Upton, to the north.

The "manor of Sodbury" comprises the nearby Chipping Sodbury and Old Sodbury: it is distinct from that of Little Sodbury.

St Adeline's Church was built in 1859 by William James.

The 15th century, 17,385 square feet (1,615.1 m²)^[1] Little Sodbury Manor was the home of Sir John Walsh who employed William Tyndale as chaplain and tutor to his grandchildren in 1522-3; by tradition he began his translation of the Bible in his bedroom here. The manor retains the porch and Great Hall, with a timber roof resting on corbels carved as shield-bearing angels, of the fifteenth-century courtyard house. The house fell into disrepair in the nineteenth century, but was restored by architect Sir Harold Brakspear for Lord Grosvenor and later Baron de Tuyll.

Little Sodbury's Iron Age hill fort reshaped by the Romans is accessible from the village via the Cotswold Way at grid reference ST760826. There is a Royal Observer Corps post at grid reference ST766838. Little Sodbury is one of three Thankful Villages in Gloucestershire - those rare places that suffered no fatalities during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

References

1. Tzeses, Jennifer. "King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Lived in This $10.5 Million Castle". Architectural Digest. Retrieved August 22, 2016.

• David Verey, Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England edited by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd ed. (1979) ISBN 0-14-071040-X, pp. 303–304
• Anthony Emery, "Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Southern England", Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-58132-X, p. 115

External links

• Sodbury Players - local amateur dramatics group in the Yate and Chipping Sodbury Area
• GENUKI - Little Sodbury
• The Modern Antiquarian: Little Sodbury Hillfort