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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"LITTLE SODBURY, a parish in the hundred of Grumbald's Ash, county Gloucester, 2½ miles S.E. of Chipping-Sodbury, and 4 N.E. of the Yate railway station. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the Bath and Chippenham roads. The inhabitants are chiefly agricultural. The soil is of a clayey character, and the land is partly in common. On the brow of one of the Cotswold hills in this parish, facing the Severn, are traces of a Roman camp, from which point a view is obtained of the vale of Gloucestershire. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £235. The church is dedicated to St. Adeline. There is a Sunday-school. W. H. H. Hartley, Esq., is lord of the manor."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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