Southwick is a rural village 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the county town

County town

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 of Trowbridge

Trowbridge

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England, situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, approximately 12 miles southeast of Bath, Somerset....

, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, in England

England

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. It is separated from Trowbridge only by the Southwick Country Park, which consists of 380 acres (153.8 ha) of open fields. The majority of the village lies south of the A361

A361 road

The A361 is a major road in England and at is the longest 3 digit A road in the UK. It runs south from Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast to Barnstaple, turning south-east to Tiverton then, after a break , north east from Taunton in Somerset through Street and Glastonbury, past Frome and then...

, which runs through the village, linking Trowbridge with Frome

Frome

Frome is a town and civil parish in northeast Somerset, England. Located at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the town is built on uneven high ground, and centres around the River Frome. The town is approximately south of Bath, east of the county town, Taunton and west of London. In the 2001...

. It has a small primary school, which is located next to a large playing field.

History

Southwick Court Farmhouse, northwest of the village, is an L-shaped house of which one wing is dates 1567. Brook House, southeast of the village, is a 17th century farmhouse beside an early 16th century stone-built range. The Poplars was built in about 1650 and re-faced with brick in about 1700. Manor Farmhouse, west of the village, was built in 1673.

The Baptist

Baptist

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 chapel was built in 1815. The Church of England parish church

Church of England parish church

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 of Saint Thomas

Saint Thomas

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was built in 1899-1904 to designs by the Gothic Revival architect

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 C.E. Ponting

Charles Ponting

Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.-Career:Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux brewing family's estate from 1870 until 1888...

 of Marlborough.