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Eat and drink · Chipping Sodbury
Hobbs House Bakery, Chipping Sodbury
The Chipping Sodbury shop of Hobbs House, the fifth-generation family bakery whose story runs through the town, on the High Street, selling bread, cakes and Extract coffee from Monday to Saturday.
The family bakery's home-town shop on Chipping Sodbury's High Street: bread, cakes and coffee from 8am. It closes at 3pm, or 2pm on Saturdays, and all day on Sundays.
- Good: Bread and cakes from a fifth-generation family bakery
- Good: Open from 8am, Monday to Saturday
- Good: Extract coffee and a drinks menu
- Worth knowing: Closes at 3pm, and 2pm on Saturdays
- Worth knowing: Closed on Sundays
About
Hobbs House Bakery has its shop at 39 High Street, Chipping Sodbury, the town where Tom baked while his brother Henry ran the butchery next door. It sells the bakery's fresh bread and cakes, with coffee from Extract and a drinks menu, from 8am to 3pm on weekdays and 8am to 2pm on Saturdays; it is closed on Sundays.
The bakery tells its own history as a century of baking. Thomas, a blacksmith at Down Ampney, fell on hard times, and his wife Mabel, whose family were bakers, persuaded him to learn to bake; later, Tom baked in Chipping Sodbury while Henry ran the butchery next door. The business is now in its fifth generation, with shops in Tetbury and Nailsworth too, and one on Gloucester Road in Bristol. It is a certified B Corp, and it baked a Heritage Sourdough to mark its centenary.
Come in the morning for the fullest shelves. It is a bakery shop rather than a place for a long lunch; for that, Broad Street has the pubs, among them the Squire.
Chipping Sodbury is the market town at the southern end of the Cotswold Edge. Take a loaf up to Old Sodbury and walk our 2.5-mile circuit up the Cotswold Way to the Norman church on the hill and the double ramparts of Sodbury Camp, about one and a half to two hours.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 08:00 to 15:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 15:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 15:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 15:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 15:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 14:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
Closed on Sundays.
The details
- Food
- Bakery · Café food
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
- Features
- Shop · Café
- History
- A family bakery for more than a hundred years
Location
Places to stay nearby
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The Moda House
B&B · Chipping Sodbury
A bed and breakfast in a Grade II* listed house of the late seventeenth century that closes the top of Chipping Sodbury's High Street, with eight en-suite rooms and breakfast cooked on the Aga.
Verified Oct 2026
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The Bell at Old Sodbury
Inn · Chipping Sodbury
A family-run 18th-century pub with four B&B rooms on Badminton Road, Old Sodbury, near Chipping Sodbury, on the edge of the Cotswold Way.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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Gatekeepers Lodge
Self-catering · Dyrham
A former toll house on Upper Street, Dyrham, let as a holiday cottage for two, beside Dyrham Park and on the Cotswold Way.
Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Hamptons Deli Café, Chipping Sodbury
- The Moda House
- The Horseshoe, Chipping Sodbury 0.1 km away
- The Squire 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Chipping Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury's Grade I parish church off Wickwar Road, dedicated in 1284 and rebuilt larger in the fifteenth century, with a tower over 30m tall holding eight bells, a fan-vaulted pulpit built into the arcade, St Katherine's chapel and a thirteenth-century font.
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St John the Baptist, Old Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Old Sodbury's hilltop church of Norman origin, on the Cotswold Way above the village, with a fifteenth-century tower and two rare knights' effigies: one carved in wood in the fourteenth century, one in stone about 1240. Grade II*.
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Sodbury Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
An Iron Age hill fort with two wide-spaced ramparts on the Cotswold edge above Old Sodbury, where Edward IV camped on his way to the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. A scheduled monument, crossed by the Cotswold Way and our stile-free circuit from the village.
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Horton Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
A small Iron Age hill fort on a spur of the Cotswold edge above Horton, north of Old Sodbury: one rampart 3m high on the plateau side and steep natural slopes on the rest, never excavated. A scheduled monument beside the Cotswold Way.