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The Polebarn Hotel in Trowbridge, Wiltshire (formerly Polebarn House) is a building of historical significance and is Grade II* listed on the Historic England Register. [1] It was built in 1789 by John Clark, a local textile mill owner and clergyman.
The Shires Shopping Centre is the central, covered shopping centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England The centre incorporates the county town's main museum and has a 1,000-space car park. As of 2009 [update] , approximately 120,000 shoppers visited the centre each week.
Trowbridge (/ ˈ t r oʊ b r ɪ dʒ / TROH-brij) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset.The town lies 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Bath, 31 miles (50 km) south-west of Swindon and 20 miles (32 km) south-east of Bristol.
The school's immediate predecessors were the Trowbridge High School for Boys, and the Trowbridge High School for Girls, single-sex grammar schools which were established in 1912 on two sites: on Wingfield Road (boys) and nearby on Gloucester Road (girls). These formed a co-educational grammar school, the Combined High Schools, on 14 April 1969.
Great Hinton had a public house, The Linnet (originally called The New Inn), which closed in 2011. [9] [10] It is a Grade II listed building that was built in brick in the mid-18th century and has a brewhouse dated 1816; Julian Orbach describes the mansard roof of the brewhouse as an addition for a miniature woollen factory. [11]
West Ashton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Trowbridge , near the A350 between Melksham and Yarnbrook which bypasses Trowbridge. The parish includes the hamlets of Dunge ( grid reference ST 892 544 ), East Town ( ST 893 557 ) and Rood Ashton ( ST 886 560 ).
Rood Ashton House, Wiltshire Rood Ashton House was a country house in Wiltshire , England, standing in parkland 0.5 miles (0.80 km) northeast of the village of West Ashton , near Trowbridge . Built in 1808 for Richard Godolphin Long , it was later the home of the 1st Viscount Long (1854–1924).
The original WS&WR line diverges to the north of Trowbridge, formerly carried a limited passenger service (two per day each way Mon-Sat, one each way on Sundays) to/from Swindon via Melksham and Chippenham. This was improved to a two-hourly service (8 trains each way total on weekdays, 5 each way on Sundays) at the December 2013 timetable change.