Melksham
Melksham is a small town in Wiltshire. It is not most people's idea of a tourist destination. Originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement Melksham became one of Wiltshire's industrial towns and grew on the back of the Avon rubber factory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: My another account, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: My another account, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 19,400 residents
- Description: town on the River Avon in Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Melksham, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Melksham railway station and St Michael’s Church, Melksham.
Melksham railway station
Railway station
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Melksham railway station serves the town of Melksham in Wiltshire, England. It is 100 miles 13 chains from London Paddington, on the TransWilts Line between Chippenham and Trowbridge.
St Michael’s Church, Melksham
Church
Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Ebenezer Chapel, Melksham
Church
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1985.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitley and Shaw.
Whitley
Village
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Whitley is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England, which had a population of 1,914 at the 2011 census. The village lies about 2 miles northwest of Melksham on the B3353 Shaw to Corsham road.
Shaw
Village
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Shaw is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England. It is about 1.7 miles northwest of Melksham on the A365 Melksham to Box road, where the B3353 diverges to Corsham.
Bowerhill
Suburb
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Bowerhill is a village near Melksham, Wiltshire, England, in the civil parish of Melksham Without. Central Bowerhill is approximately 1.75 miles south of Melksham town centre.
Melksham
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3726° or 51° 22′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.1374° or 2° 8′ 15″ westPopulation
19,400Elevation
135 feet (41 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MLHOpen location code
9C3V9VF7+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 26243281OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Melksham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مالكشم”
- Armenian: “Միլքշեմ”
- Asturian: “Melksham”
- Basque: “Melksham”
- Bengali: “মেল্কশ্যাম”
- Cebuano: “Melksham”
- Chinese: “Melksham”
- Chinese: “梅克舍姆”
- Chinese: “梅尔克舍姆”
- Chinese: “梅爾克舍姆”
- Chinese: “美斯咸”
- Dutch: “Melksham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مالكشم”
- Esperanto: “Melksham”
- French: “Melksham”
- German: “Melksham”
- Gujarati: “મેલ્કશામ”
- Irish: “Melksham”
- Italian: “Melksham”
- Japanese: “メルクシャム”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಲ್ಕ್ಸಮ್”
- Korean: “멜크샴”
- Ladin: “Melksham”
- Latin: “Melksham”
- Lithuanian: “Melkšemas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Melksham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melksham”
- Persian: “ملکشام”
- Polish: “Melksham”
- Portuguese: “Melksham”
- Romanian: “Melksham”
- Russian: “Мелкшем”
- South Azerbaijani: “ملکشام”
- Spanish: “Melksham”
- Swedish: “Melksham”
- Tamil: “மேலக்சம்”
- Telugu: “మెల్క్శమ్”
- Turkish: “Melksham”
- Ukrainian: “Мелкшам”
- Urdu: “میلکشام”
- Volapük: “Melksham”
- Welsh: “Melksham”
- “Melksham”
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