Marsh Wharf
Trowbridge and Staverton (?), Wiltshire KAC62.79

KandAC mile 62
The stables of Marsh Wharf, now extended and altered to make a dwelling.
Transported by canal, coal was available here from 1805 - the year that the first steam engine was installed in Trowbridge.
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.
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.

Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000