Trowbridge, County town in Wiltshire, England
Trowbridge is the administrative center of Wiltshire county in England and sits beside the River Biss at 190 feet (58 meters) above sea level. Streets are lined with buildings from the textile industry era that still shape the town's appearance today.
The settlement appeared in the 1086 Domesday Book under the name Straburg and counted 24 households at the time. It brought its lord Brictric an annual income of 8 pounds sterling.
The museum housed in a former mill keeps one of five surviving Spinning Jenny machines and shows tools from the cloth-making era. Visitors walk through rooms where old looms and fabric samples make the weavers' work easier to picture.
Trains connect the town directly to London, Bath and Brighton, while road access runs through the M4, A36 and A303 routes. Visitors coming from southern areas find the A36 the easiest approach.
Wool cloth production earned the place the nickname Manchester of the West, and orders came even from the Russian Empress. This connection shows how far fabrics from local workshops traveled across Europe.
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