Chipping Sodbury

Chipping Sodbury is what happens when a perfectly ordinary town finds a bit of money and a Georgian high street and decides it is nothing like Yate next door, despite sharing a postcode, a railway line, and most of the same weather. It is comfortable, well-behaved, and keen you notice the difference. Its proudest son, Edward Jenner, learned his trade here and then cleared off to Berkeley to do the world-changing bit, which tells you most of what you need to know about the local ceiling on ambition.