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Folk music festival that has been held for over 50 years. The music covers a variety of genres from folk and roots to blues, Celtic and Ceilidh with a variety of other entertainment including a family field, with puppetry and story telling.
The Village Pump Festival is a folk music festival that takes place near Trowbridge, England. It has its roots 56 years ago in a barn at the Lamb Inn, Trowbridge, and later moved a few miles outside the town to Stowford Manor Farm at Farleigh Hungerford. The music covers a variety of genres from folk and roots to blues, celtic and Ceilidh with a variety of other entertainment including a family field, with puppetry and story telling.
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19th century church based on the Salisbury Cathedral. It's commonly known as the Church of the Roundabout because it is encircled by a one-way traffic system. There is also a war memorial to the south of the church.
Neo-Georgian county hall, completed in 1940. During the Second World War it was covered in camouflage nets because it was feared the newly erected and easily recognisable structure could be a landmark used by German bombers to navigate to Bristol.
Exhibits here focus mostly on Trowbridge's history as a major British textile town. This was also Isaac Pitman's home town and there is an exhibit about his life and times.
Grade II listed building of historic value.
Motte-and-bailey castle dated to the 12th century, nowadays only a ditch and medieval wall are left of it.