Retirement Properties Spotlight in Frome

Frome is an old market town with narrow streets named after the River Frome and lies about six miles west of Warminster. St Aldhem founded a mission here in the 7th century and in Domesday there is mention of four mills, a church and a market which still takes place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It owed its prosperity in the Middle Ages to the rise of the cloth-making industry and Daniel Defoe thought it might become one of the richest inland towns in the country. Today there are many fine listed buildings in the town centre.