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Bowerhill

Bowerhill is a village near Melksham, Wiltshire, England, in the civil parish of Melksham Without.

Bowerhill
Bowerhill · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bowerhill is a village near Melksham, Wiltshire, England, in the civil parish of Melksham Without. Central Bowerhill is approximately 1.75 miles (2.8 km) south of Melksham town centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bowerhill

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ebenezer Chapel, Melksham

    The Ebenezer Chapel is a Baptist place of worship in the town of Melksham in the English county of Wiltshire. The chapel was built in 1835.

    2.1 km · church in Melksham, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    New Semington Aqueduct

    New Semington Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the carriageway of the A350 road Trowbridge Bypass, at Semington in west Wiltshire, England. Although the construction of new canals is no longer common practice in England, new aqueducts such as this are sometimes built in relation to new roads or road widening schemes.

    1.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael and All Angels, Melksham

    St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church in the town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. The church stands some 200 metres northwest of the town's marketplace.

    2 km · church in Melksham, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    Melksham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which was built as a cheese market and is now the home of Melksham Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.8 km · Melksham Town Hall, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Monkton House

    Monkton House in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England is a Grade II* listed 16th-century house.

    3 km · house in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Semington Aqueduct

    Semington Aqueduct is an aqueduct at Semington, Wiltshire, England, UK. It carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the Semington Brook.

    2.1 km · canal aqueduct in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bowerhill

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 41 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
Stations
Melksham railway station, 2.8 km
  • Bristol → Bowerhill
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • Cardiff → Bowerhill
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–13
  • London → Bowerhill
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bowerhill

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bowerhill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    178 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    510 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    528 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    546 km

If you know how people move in Bowerhill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bowerhill

Bowerhill is 34 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.