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Frome

Market town in Somerset, England, 40 km/25 mi southeast of Bristol; population (2001) 24,200. Industries in the town include foundries, printing works, and factories producing plastics.

A medieval shopping street (Cheap Street) survives in Frome. The town was once the centre of a prosperous wool trade. It has a 14th-century church.



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Frome, Somerset (UK): Butler and Tanner, Ltd; 2005.
Protect me, Lord, from oil, from water, from fire, and from ants and ... by Potter, Polyxeni / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The printing of the ODNB, which started on 8 January 2004, was done by Butler and Tanner of Frome, Somerset, a company "with an outstanding record of high-quality printing"; it was founded in 1835 by a pharmacist who required labels for his patent medicines and currently employs about 360 people (ODNB Project Update, Spring 2004, page 2).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to ... by Horton, A.V.M. / Borneo Research Bulletin
The first container load of cheddar, which left Montreal earlier this month bound for Frome, Somerset England, in a refrigerated container with temperature monitors recording every minute of the nine day trip, arrived safely and is now on sale.
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