Other Buildings
There are two primary schools (Old Sodbury CofE Primary School, and the privately run Overndale School), two hotels, and two pubs, The Bell Hotel and The Dog Inn. The village has a petrol station, a football pitch and a playground, but sadly no longer a post office since the last round of closures in 2008. The village shop soldiered on in the same premises on the Badminton Road for another three years, but finally closed in 2011. The historic Cross Hands Hotel stands on the North-Eastern corner of the A46 crossroads, and there is a farm shop (Cotswold Edge) opposite the hotel.
There is a crenellated tower on the escarpment immediately above and to the East of the village, resembling a rook chesspiece, visible from the main road, that performs the function of a ventilation shaft (the first of six) for the Chipping Sodbury Tunnel, on the main railway line from South Wales, via Bristol Parkway to London Paddington). These shafts were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway, which runs through the village and under the hill above it. The line originally ran between Chipping Sodbury and Badminton stations, which were closed around the time of the Beeching axe. Now, the nearest station is Yate on the main line from Bristol to Birmingham, which intersects the Great Western Railway to the South of Yate.
Lyegrove House is 17th century in origin, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Lodge is Gothic of 1835 by Charles Dyer of Bristol.
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