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Trowbridge’s reputation as a good place to shop can be traced back 800 years when it was the first town to be granted a charter to hold a market! A farmer’s market is held on the fourth Friday of every month.

As well as major shopping developments the pedestrianised town centre contains many unique shops including H.J. Knees Ltd, an independent family run department store that has been in the town since 1879. There are also plenty of delightful cafés and restaurants to replenish your stamina between shopping sprees.

Church Walk is a picturesque walkway which runs parallel to St James Church. Originally the buildings would have opened straight on to the churchyard and in the nineteenth century market stalls selling eggs and butter were at the entrance to the Walk.

The unique range of independent shops include: Absolutely Fabulous, Body Beautiful, Match Fashion, the Codfather and Howard Travel.

Trowbridge has also kept pace with the 21st century with major retail centres including Castle Place and the Shires Shopping Centre.

Castle Place is housed behind the Victorian Market Hall’s façade and boasts a wide range of shops and leisure facilities. On the first floor is the Castle Place Leisure Centre which has extensively equipped gym and on-site crèche. Whilst the lower ground floor is dedicated to diverse market stalls which are accessible from Monday to Saturday.

Castle Place is well served by an adjoining multi-storey car park and has bus stops and taxi ranks at the main entrance.

The Shires Shopping Centre has light and airy walkways and contains many of the national chain store names including M and S Food, the Body Shop and Waterstones book shop.

Other non-chain stores include ones selling computer games, Chinese medicine and somewhere to get your hair cut.

The Centre’s Boswells café is housed in the former Salters Mill Office and the other occupier of the Salters Home Mills building is Trowbridge Museum.