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 miles
- Swindon 20.1 miles
- Bath 10 miles
- Kingswood and Fishponds 17.3 miles
- Trowbridge 4.7 miles
- Chipping Sodbury 15.7 miles
- Chippenham 5.9 miles
- Yate 17.1 miles
- Frome 15.7 miles
- Melksham 0 miles
- Melksham Without 0.2 miles
- Devizes 6.3 miles
Neighbouring places
- Melksham Built-up area 0 miles
- Melksham Without Parish 0.2 miles
- Melksham Forest Ward 0.3 miles
- Melksham South Ward 0.4 miles
- Melksham East Ward 0.6 miles
- Melksham Without North & Shurnhold Ward 1 mile
- Bowerhill Built-up area 1.1 miles
- Beanacre Built-up area 1.4 miles
- Shaw Built-up area 1.7 miles
- Broughton Gifford Built-up area 1.9 miles
- Whitley Built-up area 2.1 miles
- Semington Built-up area 2.4 miles
Example postcodes in Melksham
SN12 6RP, SN12 7HD, SN12 7RX, SN12 7JG, SN12 7AW, SN12 7AT, SN12 8AU, SN12 7GD, SN12 6DJ … See all
Transport links
- Bristol Airport 25.3 miles
- Bournemouth Airport 43 miles
- Melksham Railway Station 0.6 miles
- Trowbridge Railway Station 5.2 miles
Hotels near Melksham Ad
- The Kings Arms Hotel 3 0.3 miles
- Beechfield House 4 1 mile
- Sign of the Angel 2.9 miles
- The White Hart 2.8 miles
- The George & Dragon 4 4.5 miles
- The Tollgate Inn 4 3.4 miles
- The Bear Hotel 3 6.1 miles
- Castle Hotel 3 6.2 miles
- The Methuen Arms 5 4.5 miles
- Timbrell's Yard 5.5 miles
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 miles
- Stanley Abbey (Wiltshire) Historic site 5.7 miles
- Hartham Country house 5.9 miles
- Roman Baths Historic site 9.7 miles
- Fashion Museum Museum 9.9 miles
- Jane Austen Centre Museum 9.9 miles
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Museum 10 miles
- Twerton Park Stadium 11.3 miles
- Orchardleigh Estate Historic site 11.3 miles
- Silbury Hill Archaeological site 12.2 miles
- Bath Racecourse Recreation 12.3 miles
- Dyrham Park Historic site 12.5 miles