The ''Wiltshire Times'' is a weekly newspaper published in
Trowbridge
Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies south-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, south-west of Swindon and south-east of Brist ...
, Wiltshire in South West England. The paper serves the western Wiltshire towns of
Bradford on Avon
Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists. The parish had ...
, Trowbridge,
Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the southwestern edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 road (England), A4 national route. It is southwest of Swindon, east of ...
,
Chippenham
Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, ...
,
Warminster
Warminster () is a historic market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. The parish had a population of 18,173 in 2021.
The name ''Warminster'' occurs first i ...
,
Westbury and
Melksham
Melksham () is a town and civil parish on the Bristol Avon, River Avon in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Trowbridge and south of Chippenham. The parish population was 18,113 at the 2021 census.
History
Early history
Excavations in ...
, and their surrounding rural areas.
History
The newspaper was in existence by 1881 as the ''Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser''. In 1900, the West Wiltshire Printing Company bought the printing business of William Michael in
Westbury for printing ''The West Wilts Post'', which was soon taken over by the ''Wiltshire Times''. For more than a hundred years, the newspaper was based at 15, Duke Street, in the Trowbridge town centre, which had been home to a newspaper office since about 1850. In 2019, it moved to
North Bradley, stating that its building was no longer fit for purpose.
Present day
The paper covers news in all parts of Wiltshire, concentrating on events within its west Wiltshire coverage area.
The ''Wiltshire Times'' and its sister paper the ''
Wiltshire Gazette & Herald'' now share offices at the White Horse Business Park in North Bradley, on the outskirts of Trowbridge.
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The ''Wiltshire Times'' often has special "campaigns" that appear in the newspaper, such as a campaign to reduce the number of ]potholes
A pothole is a pot-shaped depression in a road surface, usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying soil structure and traffic passing over the affected ...
in Wiltshire and a campaign to save jobs at a Bowyers factory in Trowbridge. The factory closed for good in 2007.
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