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The Shires Shopping Centre is the central, covered shopping centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The centre includes an adjoining 1,000-space car park and fronts onto the retail-centred 'high street' which has many banks and cafés. The county town's main museum is within the centre. On average approximately 120,000 shoppers visit each week.〔 ==History== Excavations before the construction of the centre revealed multiple artifacts of Saxon occupation, including a church and graveyard dated to c. 850 AD, and remnants of the medieval castle; as such the name evokes this period of Anglo-Saxon England when during the Heptarchy major affairs such as justice began to be administered by meetings at shire-level.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The History of Trowbridge )〕 Most of the land occupied by the centre was used in Trowbridge's woollen milling industry between the 14th and 19th centuries. Centrally within it was the last operating such facility, Salter's Home Mill, which closed in 1982 and much of which is Trowbridge Museum〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Trowbridge Museum )〕 which opened with the centre in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF TROWBRIDGE )〕 Opening in 1990, the Shires became Trowbridge's second shopping centre after Castle Place which opened in 1973. The Shires was voted Wiltshire's best shopping centre for the six years to 2009 by readers of a local newspaper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to The Shires Shopping Center Trowbridge )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Shires Shopping Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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