Trowbridge in western Wiltshire was established as a Parliamentary garrison in 1645 as Parliament progressively cleared Wiltshire of Royalist posts. The town was important for controlling the western Wiltshire cloth-working country and the routes from Bath and Bristol toward Devizes and Salisbury.
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