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==Town twinning== [[File:Welcome to Trowbridge - geograph.org.uk - 383389.jpg|thumb|Welcome to Trowbridge]] Trowbridge is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with four towns: [[Oujda]], the area of Morocco where most of the town's immigrant population originate,<ref name="umec">{{cite web|url=http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1203593.pdf|title=Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities β The Moroccan Muslim Community in England|date=April 2009|work=Change Institute|publisher=Communities and Local Government|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826024414/http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1203593.pdf|archive-date=26 August 2012}}</ref> since 2006;<ref name="Trowbridge twinnings">{{cite news|title=Trowbridge β Market town twins with Arab city|date=2006-10-03|publisher=BBC News Channel|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5401592.stm|work=BBC News|access-date=2013-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021084445/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5401592.stm|archive-date=2007-10-21}}</ref> [[Leer, Lower Saxony|Leer]] in Germany, since 1989;<ref name="Trowbridge twinnings"/> [[Charenton-le-Pont]] in France since 1996;<ref name="Trowbridge twinnings"/><ref name="Archant twinning 3">{{cite web|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|title=British towns twinned with French towns ''[via WaybackMachine.com]''|access-date=2013-07-20|archive-date=5 July 2013|work=Archant Community Media Ltd}}</ref> and [[ElblΔ g]] in Poland, as part of [[West Wiltshire]] district twinning, since 2000.<ref name="Trowbridge twinnings"/> The town was the first in England to twin with an Arab Muslim country.<ref name="morocco">{{cite news|url=http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/trowbridgenews/display.var.934213.0.backing_for_link_to_morocco.php|title=Backing For Link To Morocco (from Wiltshire Times)|date=22 September 2006|access-date=28 July 2008|publisher=wiltshiretimes.co.uk}}</ref>
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