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PLEASE NOTE, THE BAR IS VERY BUSY ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS. NOISE FROM THE BAR WILL BE HEARD IN ROOMS UNTIL CLOSE.
Throughout the renovation we have kept a modern yet traditional feel to the building, there is an open log fire which you will find burning throughout the cold winter months and many old pictures of local people hanging throughout the building.
The Portcullis is a very lively bar Thursday to Sunday with Karaoke, disco and bands on these days. Thursday - Saturday we are open until 2.30am and until mid-night on a Sunday evening. Please note our VERY BUSY bar is open until 2.30 am Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Noise from the bar and disco will be heard in rooms untill that time.
We are also a stone’s throw away from historical villages of Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury which both offer plenty to see. We are also within easy access to the world class 3 day Badminton horse trials held every spring, Castle Coombe race track and Westonbirt Arboretum. There is easy access to both the M4 and M5 motorways and we are only 12 miles from the city centres of Bristol and Bath.
We also have one and two bedroom apartments avaliable for weekend breaks or longer stays right in the heart of Chipping sodbury, please contact the hotel directly for avaliability.
Chipping Sodbury lies at the foot of the southern Cotswold escarpment below Dodington Park in southern Gloucestershire 8 miles north-west of Bristol. As the Chipping in its name implies, it was once an important market centre in medieval times and stands at the crossroads on the main route between Bristol, Oxford and London.
Chipping Sodbury is very similar to Chipping Norton in that it has a long market square, or Chepynge, as it was called in the medieval times and hence 'Chipping'. Known as Broad Street, this is bordered with a wonderful assortment of houses from every period, but largely 17th-