Melksham is a market town and civil parish in central Wiltshire, England, set amid gently rolling countryside close to the edge of Salisbury Plain. Its historic core has Georgian and Victorian terraces and a parish church reflecting medieval origins, while the town expanded through agriculture and later small-scale industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today Melksham combines local services, light manufacturing and a commuter population travelling to nearby centres such as Bath, Bristol and Swindon. Community life is lively with a regular market, annual shows and local clubs, and recent investment in housing and transport has brought change while the surrounding Wiltshire landscape remains central to its character.
Postcode districts covering Melksham
Most populated places nearby
- Bristol 21.1 miles33.9 km
- Swindon 20.1 miles32.4 km
- Bath 10 miles16.1 km
- Kingswood and Fishponds 17.3 miles27.8 km
- Trowbridge 4.7 miles7.6 km
- Chipping Sodbury 15.7 miles25.2 km
- Chippenham 5.9 miles9.5 km
- Yate 17.1 miles27.6 km
- Frome 15.7 miles25.2 km
- Melksham 0 miles0.1 km
- Melksham Without 0.2 miles0.3 km
- Devizes 6.3 miles10.2 km
Neighbouring places
- Melksham Built-up area 0 miles0.1 km
- Melksham Without Parish 0.2 miles0.3 km
- Melksham Forest Ward 0.3 miles0.4 km
- Melksham South Ward 0.4 miles0.6 km
- Melksham East Ward 0.6 miles0.9 km
- Melksham Without North & Shurnhold Ward 1 mile1.6 km
- Bowerhill Built-up area 1.1 miles1.8 km
- Beanacre Built-up area 1.4 miles2.2 km
- Shaw Built-up area 1.7 miles2.8 km
- Broughton Gifford Built-up area 1.9 miles3 km
- Whitley Built-up area 2.1 miles3.4 km
- Semington Built-up area 2.4 miles3.9 km
Example postcodes in Melksham
SN12 6UL, SN12 6ZZ, SN12 6UY, SN12 7PJ, SN12 6UZ, SN12 7EY, SN12 7HW, SN12 8DW, SN12 7LJ … See all
Transport links
- Bristol Airport 25.3 miles40.6 km
- Bournemouth Airport 43 miles69.2 km
- Melksham Railway Station 0.6 miles1 km
- Trowbridge Railway Station 5.2 miles8.3 km
Hotels near Melksham Ad
- Bowood Hotel, Spa, and Golf Resort 4 5 miles8 km
- Beechfield House Hotel 4 1.1 miles1.7 km
- Castle Hotel 3 6.2 miles10.1 km
- Lucknam Park Hotel 5 7.6 miles12.3 km
- Woolley Grange - A Luxury Family Hotel 4 4.6 miles7.5 km
- The Bear Hotel 3 6.1 miles9.8 km
- Widbrook Grange 3 5.4 miles8.7 km
- Homewood Hotel & Spa 4 8.4 miles13.5 km
- The White Hart 7.9 miles12.7 km
- The Queensberry Hotel 4 9.9 miles16 km
Schools in Melksham
- Aloeric Primary School Primary
- Forest and Sandridge C of E Primary School Primary
- River Mead School Primary
Local points of interest
- Loxwell Abbey Historic site 4.6 miles7.4 km
- Stanley Abbey (Wiltshire) Historic site 5.7 miles9.2 km
- Hartham Country house 5.9 miles9.4 km
- Roman Baths Historic site 9.7 miles15.7 km
- Fashion Museum Museum 9.9 miles15.9 km
- Jane Austen Centre Museum 9.9 miles16 km
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Museum 10 miles16 km
- Twerton Park Stadium 11.3 miles18.1 km
- Orchardleigh Estate Historic site 11.3 miles18.2 km
- Silbury Hill Archaeological site 12.2 miles19.7 km
- Bath Racecourse Recreation 12.3 miles19.7 km
- Dyrham Park Historic site 12.5 miles20.2 km