Seend
Seend is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the market town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England.
Seend is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the market town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. It lies about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of Devizes and 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of the county town of Trowbridge. The parish includes the sub-village of Seend Cleeve and the hamlets of Inmarsh, Martinslade, Seend Head, Sells Green and The Stocks.
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Worth seeing in and around Seend
One place 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.
- 01Caen Hill Locks
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 locks on the canal, those at Caen Hill are numbered 22 to 50, and they are near the canal highpoint at Cadley Lock.
3.9 km · Flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Seend
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 113 km
- Bristol → Seend37 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–7
- London → Seend137 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
- Cardiff → Seend77 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Seend
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 Seend. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Seend
Seend is 38 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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