Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Sodbury, Little, a parish in Gloucestershire, 2 miles E. by N of Chipping Sodbury, and 4 E by N of Yate station on the M.R. Post town, Chipping Sodbury. Acreage, 1093; population, 143. The manor house, now occupied as a farmhouse, was the seat of Sir John Walsh. There are remains of a Roman encampment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £157 with residence. The church was built in 1859. Tyndale, the translator of the Scriptures, was for some time a resident.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Little Sodbury St. Adeline | |
Hundred | Grumbalds-Ash | |
Poor Law union | Chipping-Sodbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1703.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Adeline (parish church)
The church of St. Adeline, incorporating as far as possible the design of its predecessor, is an edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of nave (without chancel), north aisle, vestry, south porch and an embattled south-western tower with pinnacles, containing the old bell: there are 150 sittings: the churchyard was formed and inclosed in 1859, there having originally been no burial ground in the parish.
St. Adeline (old) (parish church)
The old church of St. Adeline, a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, adjacent to the Manor House, was disused in 1859 on account of its dilapidated condition.
Baptist
Baptist Chapel
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Sodbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sodbury, Little (St. Adeline))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Sodbury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.