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Melksham Without

Melksham Without is a civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England.

Melksham Without
Melksham Without · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Melksham Without is a civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England. It surrounds, but does not include, the town of Melksham and is the largest rural parish in Wiltshire, with a population of 7,230 and an area of 29 square kilometres. The parish includes the villages of Beanacre, Berryfield, Shaw and Whitley, and the hamlets of Outmarsh and Redstocks. It also includes the outer Melksham suburbs of Bowerhill and The Spa, and the dispersed settlement of Sandridge which includes Sandridge Common.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Melksham Without

4 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
    Lacock Abbey

    Lacock Abbey is a country house in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England. There was an abbey of nuns on the site until 1539, and the house is a remodelling and extension of the abbey's cloister court.

    3.9 km · abbey in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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 km · church in Melksham, UK · 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.

    2.3 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.

    2.2 km · Melksham Town Hall, England · 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 Melksham Without

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
Stations
Melksham railway station, 2.4 km
  • Bristol → Melksham Without
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £5–7
  • London → Melksham Without
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Melksham Without
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Melksham Without

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 Melksham Without. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    180 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    526 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    544 km

If you know how people move in Melksham Without – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Melksham Without

Melksham Without is 35 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bromhamvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Seendvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Shawvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Bowerhillvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Beanacrevillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3 km
  • Seend Cleevevillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.4 km