Editing Trowbridge (section)

===Early history===
In the 10th century, written records and architectural ruins begin marking Trowbridge's existence as a village. In the 1086 [[Domesday Book]] the village of Straburg, as Trowbridge was then known, was recorded as having 24 households, well endowed with land, particularly arable ploughlands, and rendering 8 [[pound sterling|pounds sterling]] to its [[feudal system|feudal]] lord a year.<ref>{{OpenDomesday|ST8558|trowbridge|Trowbridge}}</ref><ref name="straburg" /> Its feudal lord was an Anglo-Saxon named [[Brictric]], who was the largest landowner in Wiltshire.