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Trowbridge Museum
Town Trail
Industrial Trail
Nature Trail
Church Trail
Trowbridge Park
Community Sensory Garden
Trowbridge Museum:
Trowbridge has one of the most popular museums in Wiltshire and since it's opening in 1990 it has attracted over a quarter of a million visitors. The museum occupies the whole second floor of a former cloth factory, Home Mills, the last working mill in Trowbridge. Today, both museum and mill are incorporated in the Shires Shopping Centre and more than 22,000 people visit every year.
The museum tells the fascinating story of Trowbridge’s people and past. The woollen industry played a crucial part in the town’s development, and working textile looms are on display. The museum even produces and sells its own work.
Other displays include a reconstruction of the town’s medieval castle. Visitors can explore a timeline on Trowbridge’s past and the carousel of life and look round a reconstruction of a weaver’s cottage and Taylors, a draper’s shop.
There is also a History of Brewing and a Life and Works of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of Pitman shorthand, and Trowbridge’s most famous son.
Admission is free.
Tel. (01225) 751339; email: museum@trowbridgemuseum.co.uk
Visit the Museum website
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Visitors and residents alike can learn a huge amount about Trowbridge – and enjoy some exercise at the same time – by following the directions on one, or all, of four leaflets produced by Trowbridge Civic Society;
Town Trail:
Starts and finishes at the Town Bridge; describes the history of the town and its buildings and how both have changed over the years.
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to the Blind House, built in 1757.
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Industrial Trail:
Take a fascinating walk through Trowbridge’s varied industrial past – and discover how the town and its people have adapted to change.
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The Handle House, one of the places of
interest on the Industrial & Town Trails
Although not included in the current Town Trail, the recently designed Trompe L'oeil is on the route and well worth a look.
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The Trompe L'oeil can be found in Roundstone Street
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Nature Trail:
A one-and-a-half-mile walk which reveals a surprising variety of flora and fauna in what was once very much an industrial landscape. Trail starts and finishes at the Trowbridge Information Office.
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A short walk featuring some of Trowbridge’s beautiful churches.
The Parish Church of St James
is included in the Town Church Trail
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Trail leaflets are available from the Trowbridge Information Centre in St Stephen’s Place. Tel. (01225) 710535
or the Town Council Offices, 10/12 Fore Street. Tel.(01225) 765072
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Other highlights of the town include: Trowbridge Park:
Trowbridge Park is in the heart of the town and is aptly named the “People’s Park”. It is a jewel in the town and many musical and community events take place throughout the year, including the West Wilts Show, held every two years, and the Carnival Country Fayre in September. The park has all-weather floodlit tennis and basketball courts, an excellent bowling green, minature/crazy golf and a well-equipped children’s play area.
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Trowbridge Park
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Trowbridge Community Sensory Garden:
Adjoining the Park is Trowbridge Community Sensory Garden. Located at the rear of the Town Hall, the garden has been created as a place of peace and tranquility that will also stimulate and reinvigorate the senses and encourage physical and mental well-being close to the town centre. The Sensory Garden is on the site of one of the oldest houses in Trowbridge, the Limes which was originally built in the 15th century. The Limes was finally demolished in 1887 so that theTown Hall could be built on the site. Pieces of pottery and masonry are still found by the Friends of Trowbridge Community Sensory Garden when they are digging in the soil. The railings of the enclosed garden were removed as part of the war effort in 1939-1945, but have now been restored as part of the development of the tranquil Sensory Garden.
The Trowbridge Community Sensory Garden is open Monday - Friday 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. in the summer and till 3.30 p.m. in the winter.
To join the Friends of Trowbridge Community Sensory Garden pick up a leaflet from Trowbridge Information Centre, Trowbridge Town Council or the Library.
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Two views of the Sensory Garden
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