C J Townrow and Sons

C J Townrow & Sons are a small chain of department stores based in Essex.

The business opened during 1871 in the Essex market town of Braintree and is run by the same family.

The business sells menswear, ladies clothes, shoes, kitchenware and linens.

It is currently based in Braintree, with smaller branches in Maldon Essex, Frinton Essex and St. Ives Cambridgeshire, which was purchased from the administrators of another department store chain Eaden Lilley. There were previously branches in Culver Street in Colchester, and High Street in Halstead.