Trowbridge Civic Society

46 Fore Street
Early eighteenth-century house,
home of John Watts,
a retired Portugal merchant,
died 1741,
who has a memorial
in the Parish Church.

The George Hotel
Stood on this site.  A tavern was
here in 1349 and called The
George by 1467.  It was one of
the principal hotels until it
closed in 1981.
Facade 1860.

64 Fore Street
Built for Thomas Cooper,
clothier c1700.
Wiltshire and Dorset Bank 1866.
Lloyds Bank 1914.

66/7 Fore Street
A late-Tudor timber-framed house refronted c.1700.
Mary Langford,
great-grandmother of
Queen Mary II and Queen Ann,
born here 1597.

31 Union Street
JOHN WARBURTON
minister of the Zion Baptist Chapel
and author of
The Mercies of a Covenant God
Lived here 1832-1850.