C J Townrow & Sons are a small chain of department stores based in Essex.
The business opened during 1871[1] and is still run by the same family.
The business sells menswear, womenswear, shoes, kitchenware and linens.
It was originally based in Braintree, which closed in 2017,[2] but continues to operate with smaller branches in Maldon, Essex Frinton-on-Sea, Essex and St Ives, Cambridgeshire, which was purchased from the administrators of another department store chain Eaden Lilley.
[3][4] In 2020 they purchased the homeware store of closing department store Winch & Blatch in Sudbury.