page_title: Trowbridge
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Trowbridge / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Drinking well, Frome Road, Trowbridge. Victorian in origin, restored in 1977
context_page_description: Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England, on the River Biss in the west of the county, 8 miles south east of Bath, Somerset. The town is also 31 miles south west of Swindon and 20 miles south east of Bristol.
  Long a market town, the Kennet and Avon canal to the north of Trowbridge has played an instrumental part in the town's development as it allowed coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield and so marked the advent of steam-powered manufacturing in woollen cloth mills. The town was foremost producer of this mainstay of contemporary clothing and blankets in south west England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by which time it held the nickname "The Manchester of the West".
  The civil parish of Trowbridge had a population of 33,108 at the 2011 census. The parish encompasses the settlements of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common.
context_section_description: There is much of architectural interest in Trowbridge, including many of the 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, being St James's Church, Lovemead House and numbers 46, 64, 68 and 70, Fore Street.
  The 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 residents of the town by a local businessman, Sir William Roger Brown, in 1889 to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. The building was the seat of local government until 1974 and also housed magistrates' courts and coroners' inquests; it is now a centre for arts and community events.
caption: 'Studley Pump' drinking well, Frome Road. Victorian in origin, restored in 1977
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