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Chipping Sodbury School ROOLZ Chipping Sodbury is a market town in South Gloucestershire, England, founded in the 12th century by William Crassus. The small villages of Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury are nearby. The population of Chipping Sodbury is 6,600, but in the last two or three decades the town has become part of a much larger built-up area due to the rapid expansion of nearby Yate. The combined population of Yate and Chipping Sodbury is c.35,500. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification - by Athelstan AD927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi - Water (%) Population...
Old Sodbury is a small village to the east of Chipping Sodbury and Yate in South Gloucestershire. ...
Little Sodbury is an English village in South Gloucestershire a little east of Chipping Sodbury. ...
Location within the British Isles The coat of arms of Yate Yate (population 28,900, est. ...
In the 18th century Edward Jenner started his medical training in Sodbury, observing people catching cowpox, and then not catching smallpox. Portrait of Edward Jenner Edward Jenner FRS (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor who studied nature and his natural surroundings from childhood and practiced medicine in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. ...
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Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) was a highly contagious viral disease unique to humans. ...
East of the town is a railway tunnel under the Cotswolds, 2 miles 924 yards (4.06 km) long, which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1902. The Chipping Sodbury tunnel is notorious for flooding in wet weather, often leading to disruption of services on the main railway line to and from South Wales. Chipping Sodbury had a railway station from 1903 to 1961. Yate station, on the Bristol to Birmingham main line, originally closed in 1965 but reopened in May 1989. A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ...
The Cotswolds is the name given to a range of hills in central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, a hilly area reaching over 300 m or 1000 feet. ...
The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ...
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Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...
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The city from above Centenary Square. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Chipping Sodbury supposedly has the widest street of any town in England, though Stockton-on-Tees is another strong contender for that distinction. Stockton-on-Tees is an industrial town and port on the River Tees in north-eastern England. ...
The current mayor is the honourable Paul Robins.
The name Chipping Sodbury is considered humorous by those unfamiliar with it. Locals often call it "Sodding Chipbury".
The Placename Its name is recorded in Anglo-Saxon (in the dative case) as Soppanbyrig = "Soppa's fort". "Chipping" means that a market was held there. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...
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Famous Inhabitants - J. K. Rowling - the town is often cited as the birthplace of Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling; in fact she was born in nearby Yate, though the two towns are joined. It is believed locally that Harry Potter was named after a friend of Rowling's who still lives locally, but this has never been confirmed by the author
- RC "Jack" Russell - the former England cricket wicket keeper and artist has a gallery in the town
Joanne Jo Rowling, OBE (born 31 July 1965[1]) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name of J. K. Rowling[2]. Rowling became famous as author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 300 million copies...
Cover of the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (British version) The Harry Potter books are an immensely popular series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. ...
Location within the British Isles The coat of arms of Yate Yate (population 28,900, est. ...
Robert Charles Russell (known as Jack) Born: 15 August 1963, Stroud, Gloucestershire Major Teams: Gloucestershire, England. ...
Gallery The wide main street of Chipping Sodbury. Cars are parked where market stalls would once have been. The wide main street of Chipping Sodbury. ...
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