Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is a small market town in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, bordering onto Yate. It was founded in the 12th century by William Crassus . The town has 6,600 residents as of 2001. Chipping Sodbury was the birthplace of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Near the town is a railway tunnel under the Cotswolds, about 4 km long, which was opened 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

External links

• http://www.yateonline.co.uk/cycle.htm
• http://www.southglos.gov.uk/environmental_protection/chipsod.htm