Towns and Villages Around Trowbridge

Atworth
When approached from Bath and Box the village is seen with the distant heights of Salisbury Plain, with a wide cloudscape above, as a backcloth. On re...
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Berkley
The parish of Berkley lies to the north-east of Frome, and some 8 miles southwest of Trowbridge. There was an earlier village centred on Berkley Marsh...
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Bratton
The best known feature of Bratton parish is its white horse, perversely known as the Westbury White Horse. True, it is facing Westbury and railway pas...
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Broughton Gifford
I always think of Broughton Gifford as the village around the common, although in truth most of the houses now lie on the road to Holt between the com...
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Buckland Dinham
Buckland Dinham lies amid undulating landscape near Orchardleigh woods, about 10 miles equidistant from Trowbridge and Warminster and three miles from...
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Dilton
Dilton, about midway between Trowbridge and Warminster, provides the supreme example of a village which has shrunk and almost vanished while its child...
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Edington
Edington holds an honourable place in the history of Wessex, for it was here, most people believe, that King Alfred defeated the Danes under Guthrum i...
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Hemington
Hemington, about 9 miles west of Trowbridge, lies in a quiet valley set below the junction of two ancient roads, one along which the Roman general Ves...
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Hilperton
The village centre is quite distinct but when on the outskirts you are uncertain as to whether you are in Hilperton or an adjacent parish. Adjoining t...
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Holt
An industrial Wiltshire village is a rarity nowadays but Holt is one in which a long established firm survives, although another has recently closed, ...
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Keevil
About four miles due east of Trowbridge, set amid green pastures and pleasant mature trees, lies the village of Keevil. Within living memory most inha...
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Limpley Stoke
The village poses many questions. Why is it built on a steep hillside? Where does Limpley Stoke end and Freshford begin? Where is the church? How do t...
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North Bradley
The parish of North Bradley contains two substantial villages: North Bradley itself and Southwick. Both lie within two miles of Trowbridge and have be...
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Rode
Rode is a pretty village of some 800 inhabitants, stretching down the gentle slope from St Lawrence's church to the river Frome and beyond to the old ...
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Seend
It is difficult to imagine today but for more than 30 years in the middle of the 19th century the extraction of iron ore and its smelting was carried ...
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Semington
The village itself is quite compact but with several outlying small settlements and farms in the parish. It lies around the north to south road betwee...
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South Wraxall
South Wraxall is a beautiful stone village with a glorious manor house in a most successful amalgam of styles; the 15th century combining with the Eli...
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Southwick
Southwick is in the shape of the letter 'T', with the tail being the North Bradley road and the top the A361 from Trowbridge to Frome. Here there is m...
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Steeple Ashton
Steeple Ashton has long been a favourite village of mine. It is the most obvious timber framed settlement in west Wiltshire, grouped around its triang...
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The Chalfields
While the Chalfields, situated to the west of Melksham between Chippenham and Trowbridge, are not exactly villages, they are so interesting and attrac...
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West Ashton
The village of West Ashton, situated on a hill to the south-east of Trowbridge, is built along the roads to the south-west and south-east of its cross...
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Westwood
The old stone village of Westwood lies to the south-west of Bradford on Avon. The beautiful unspoilt Westwood Manor contains architecture from four pe...
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Wingfield
The village of Wingfield is hardly visible from the main roads, the A366 from Trowbridge to Farleigh Hungerford and the B3109 from Bradford on Avon to...
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Winsley
The stone village of Winsley is huddled around its twisting tortuous main street through which traffic passes only with difficulty. The history of the...
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