TROWBRIDGE, a market town of England, Wiltshire, stands on the declivity of a rocky eminence on the right bank of the Were, a tributary of the Avon, and here crossed by a stone bridge, 21 miles N.W. of Salisbury. The main street, of which the town principally consists, is winding and irregularly built. The houses generally are old and mean, though some of them are large and handsome. The parish church is a spacious edifice, with a nave, chancel, two side-aisles with chapels attached, and a large western tower and spire. Besides another church, recently erected, there are various dissenting places of worship, several schools, almshouses, and other charities. The woollen manufacture was established here at an early period, and cassimeres, kerseys, and tweeds are still its chief products. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes about 1 mile N. of the town. The poet Crabbe was rector of Trowbridge for eighteen years, and died here in 1832.