Trowbridge

Written records and architectural ruins began marking Trowbridge's existence as a village in the 10th century. In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village of Straburg, as Trowbridge was then known, was recorded as having 24 households, well-endowed with land, particularly arable ploughlands, and rendering 8 pounds sterling to its feudal lord a year. Its feudal lord was an Anglo-Saxon named Brictric, the largest landowner in Wiltshire.

in origin, restored in 1977]] Trowbridge has much architectural interest, including many old buildings associated with the textile industry, and the Newtown conservation area, a protected zone of mostly Victorian houses. The town has six Grade I listed buildings: St James's Church, Lovemead House on Roundstone Street, and numbers 46, 64, 68 and 70 Fore Street. The latter is referred to more commonly as Parade House. Trowbridge Town Hall is in Market Street, opposite the entrance to the now-pedestrianised Fore Street. This three-storey building with an Italianate clock-tower was presented to the town's residents by a local mill-owner, Sir William Roger Brown, in 1889 to celebrate Queen…