SODBURY-CHIPPING, (Gloucestershire) 10 cm. 12 mm. from Bristol, 85 cm. 103 mm. from London, is an ancient Bor. which was formerly governed by a bailiff, made into a corp. confirming of a mayor, 6 ald. and 12 burgesses by Cha. II. in 1681; but Ja. II. by a proclamation in Jan. 1688, suppressed it. It is a great thoroughfare in the road from Bristol to Cirencester and Banbury, and has many large inns, which have a great trade by the carriage of lime and coal into Cotswold. The Mt. is Th. the Fairs om Ascension-day and June 25. The p. is 3 m. in com. with a stream on the N. side, that runs into the Frome. The manor bel. formerly to the Stanshaws and Walshes; which last sold it, in the R. of Ja. I. to Tho. Stephens, attorney- general to Pr. Henry; in whose family it did lately, if it does not still, remain. It has a large Ch. which is a chapel of ease to Old-Sodbury, and a fr. sc. Here is the greatest Cheese-Mt. in England, except Atherston in Warwickshire. K. Stephen granted the burghers of this place the same liberties as those of Bristol, and allowed every burgher commonage for a heifer, in the place, called the Rodings. The bailiffs and burghers are still impowered to distribute 33 cow-pastures to as many of the inh. and 8 acres of meadow for their own lives, and those of their widows; and as they fall, to grant them again in like manner.