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The following is a list of current and former spa towns in the United Kingdom. England. Derbyshire. Buxton [1 ] [2] ... Melksham, Wiltshire; Nantwich, Cheshire ...
Melksham Without parish council logo on a bus stop near Berryfield. 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 (as of 2011) [1] and an area of 29 square kilometres (7,200 acres).
Central Bowerhill is approximately 1.75 miles (2.8 km) south of Melksham town centre. Bowerhill has a population of approximately 3,000 [ citation needed ] and was separated from the town of Melksham by a narrow rural buffer or green swathe until 2022, when most of the buffer was obliterated by housing.
Melksham Community Campus, built by Wiltshire Council on a central site next to Melksham House, opened in 2022. [56] It provides a swimming pool, library, sports centre and council offices. Melksham has a non-League football club, Melksham Town F.C., who play at the Oakfield Stadium on Eastern Way, which opened in January 2017. [57]
Whitley is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England, which had a population of 1,914 at the 2011 census. [1] The village lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Melksham on the B3353 Shaw to Corsham road. [2] The hamlet of West Hill is to the west, on the road to Atworth.
Sandridge is a dispersed rural community to the east of Melksham, Wiltshire, England.It is part of the civil parish of Melksham Without.. An Ordnance Survey map of 1961 names a settlement at Sandridge Hill, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Melksham, and a hamlet of Sandridge, 0.25 miles (0.4 km) to the north; [1] as of 2015 these names are no longer in gazetteers and Sandridge refers to a wider area ...
After significant population growth, largely associated with Melksham's status as a market town, the area became an urban district in 1894. [10] By 1907 the cheese store was being used as a drill hall by a detachment of B Squadron, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [ 11 ] and, in 1911, the suffragettes , Annie Kenney and Mildred Mansel gave a speech ...
As this is the centre of the east–west extent of the Ordnance Survey mapping grid, True North and Grid north align exactly in Devizes. Towns close to Devizes include Melksham, Pewsey, Calne and Westbury. Suburbs of the town include Hartmoor, Jump Farm, Northgate, Nursteed, Roundway, Southbroom and Wick.