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Marsh Wharf |
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Trowbridge and Staverton (?), Wiltshire KAC62.79 |
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KandAC mile 62
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The stables of Marsh Wharf, now extended and altered to make a
dwelling.
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Transported by canal, coal was available here from 1805 - the year
that the first steam engine was installed in Trowbridge.
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Marsh Wharf once belonged to A H and S Bird, coal merchant, who sold
coal from the Somerset coal fields at 5 1/2d per cwt unscreened, 7d
per cwt screened, in the 1880s.
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Looking from the towpath (2000) the coal merchant's office was the
building on the left, his stables the building on the right, next to
the road. A modern bungalow is built in the wharf area which is now
garden.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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