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Trowbridge Civic Centre is situated within Trowbridge Park, in the county town of Wiltshire. It stands on the site of the original Trowbridge Civic Hall, which was completed in 1973, with the new building having been opened in 2011. The redevelopment took place around the existing Lansdown Room, named after the family who were proprietors of the area’s local newspaper, The Wiltshire Times; other rooms within the building take their name from families associated with Trowbridge’s industrial past: •	The Usher Suite (brewing) •	The Stancomb Rooms (cloth production) •	The Bowyer Room (sausages and meat products) •	The Pitman Room (after Trowbridge-born Sir Isaac Pitman, creator of the Pitman Shorthand system). These rooms can accommodate between 12 and 900 guests, dependent on size. The Centre is widely used as a venue for conferences, weddings and entertainment events: famous comedians who have appeared at the Centre include Bill Bailey and Milton Jones. The Civic Centre also houses the offices of Trowbridge Town Council, which provides services as the first tier of local government for a population of over 40,000 inhabitants, both in the town and various outlying villages. Also within the building are Trowbridge Information Centre and the offices of Active Trowbridge.