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Little Sodbury, the Glossary

Little Sodbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Horton, in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England.^[1]

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23 relations: A46 road, Badminton, Gloucestershire, Chipping Sodbury, Civil parish, Cotswold Way, David Verey, Gloucestershire, Great hall, Harold Brakspear, Hawkesbury Upton, Hillfort, Horton, Gloucestershire, Little Sodbury Manor, Nikolaus Pevsner, Northavon (UK Parliament constituency), Old Sodbury, Royal Observer Corps, South Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire Council, Thankful Villages, Tuyll, William Tyndale, World War I.
Hill forts in Gloucestershire
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A46 road

The A46 is a major A road in England.

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Badminton, Gloucestershire

Badminton is a village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. Little Sodbury and Badminton, Gloucestershire are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Chipping Sodbury is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Little Sodbury and Chipping Sodbury are former civil parishes in Gloucestershire.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Cotswold Way

The Cotswold Way is a long-distance footpath, running along the Cotswold Edge escarpment of the Cotswold Hills in England.

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David Verey

Sir David John Verey CBE (born 1950) is an English banker and philanthropist.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Great hall

A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.

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Harold Brakspear

Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934) was an English restoration architect and archaeologist.

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Hawkesbury Upton

Hawkesbury Upton is a village in South Gloucestershire, England, east of the much smaller Hawkesbury. Little Sodbury and Hawkesbury Upton are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Horton, Gloucestershire

Horton is a village and civil parish on the Cotswold Edge, in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. Little Sodbury and Horton, Gloucestershire are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Little Sodbury Manor

Little Sodbury Manor is a 15th-century manor house in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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Northavon (UK Parliament constituency)

Northavon was, from 1983 until 2010, a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Old Sodbury

Old Sodbury is a small village and former civil parish in the valley of the River Frome just below and to the west of the Cotswold escarpment and to the east of Chipping Sodbury and Yate, now in the parish of Sodbury, in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. Little Sodbury and Old Sodbury are former civil parishes in Gloucestershire and villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Royal Observer Corps

The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain.

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South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England.

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South Gloucestershire Council

South Gloucestershire Council is the local authority of South Gloucestershire, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, covering an area to the north of the city of Bristol.

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Thankful Villages

Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are settlements in England and Wales from which all their members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s; in Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to The King's England series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sodbury