Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
LITTLE SODBURY
Little Sodbury is a tiny village whose manor was built in 1486 for Sir John Walsh. In
1521 William Tyndale came here as chaplain to Sir John's household, during which
time he began to translate into English Erasmus's
Enchiridion Militis Christiani
. He left
Little Sodbury for London in 1523, then travelled to the continent where he met Miles
Coverdale. Three years later Tyndale's English version of the New Testament was pub-
lished at Worms, in Germany (the Old Testament followed in 1530), but 10 years later
he was put to death. See the Tyndale Monument above North Nibley, visited on Sec-
tion 5.
Horton Church, a snatched view
