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Photo of Caen Hill Locks, a landmark near Devizes, Wiltshire, south west England.

Caen Hill LocksPhoto Pauline Bernfeld / Unsplash

Places to explore near Melksham StationMelksham

42 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 2 are national icons.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of the Kennet & Avon Canal, an 87-mile canal running from Reading to Bristol, England.Highlight

Kennet & Avon Canal

Canal

The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

3.5 km S · spans 5 counties

Photo of Lacock, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.Iconic

Lacock

Village

National Trust-owned village of timbered and stone cottages with a medieval abbey and barn, kept free of modern clutter and much used on screen.

4.2 km N · Wiltshire

Photo of Lacock Abbey, a Grade II registered house & garden in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Lacock Abbey

House & garden near Lacock

Where Fox Talbot made the world's oldest surviving photographic negative in 1835.

4.4 km NE

Photo of The Methuen Arms, a gastropub near Corsham, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

The Methuen Arms

Gastropub · With rooms near Corsham

A Georgian coaching inn with rooms in a small Wiltshire market town, county winner in 2024.

6.4 km NW

Photo of Corsham, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Corsham

Village

Handsome former weaving town of golden Bath stone, with almshouses, an arcaded high street and peacocks roaming Corsham Court's park.

6.6 km NW · Wiltshire

Photo of the Cotswolds, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cotswolds

National Landscape near Cirencester

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

6.7 km NW

Photo along the Macmillan Way, a 290-mile long-distance path running from Boston to Abbotsbury, England.Highlight

Macmillan Way

Long-distance path

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

6.7 km W · spans 10 counties

Photo of Longs Arms, a gastropub near South Wraxall, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Longs Arms

Gastropub near South Wraxall

A stone village pub near Bradford-on-Avon whose hosts were Licensees of the Year 2018.

6.8 km W

Photo of Steeple Ashton, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Steeple Ashton

Village

Former weaving village near Trowbridge with a market cross, old lock-up and village pump, and a grand Perpendicular church.

7.7 km S · Wiltshire

Photo of Bradford-on-Avon, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Bradford-on-Avon

Village

Riverside cloth town on the edge of the Cotswolds, its steep lanes of weavers' cottages rising above a packhorse bridge and Saxon church.

8.5 km SW · Wiltshire

Photo of Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn, a landmark near Bradford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn

Landmark near Bradford-on-Avon

Great 14th-century barn of Shaftesbury Abbey's farm at Barton, 51 metres long, its stone-slate roof carried on massive timber crucks.

8.6 km SW

Photo of the North Wessex Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

North Wessex Downs

National Landscape near Hungerford

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

9.2 km E

Photo of Caen Hill Locks, a landmark near Devizes, Wiltshire, south west England.Iconic

Caen Hill Locks

Landmark near Devizes

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

9.3 km E

Photo of Biddestone, a village in the Cotswolds, Wiltshire, south west England.Highlight

Biddestone

Village

Postcard Cotswold village around a green with a duck pond, ringed by Grade II listed stone cottages.

9.6 km NW · Wiltshire

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Photo of Great Chalfield Manor and Garden, a house & garden near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, south west England.

Great Chalfield Manor and Garden

House & garden near Bradford-on-Avon

A moated manor of the 1470s with an Arts and Crafts garden by Alfred Parsons.

4 km W

Photo of St Cyriac's Church, Lacock, a church in Wiltshire, south west England.

St Cyriac's Church, Lacock

Church near Lacock

Handsome Perpendicular wool church in National Trust Lacock, with a fine Renaissance tomb chapel for the Sharington family.

4.4 km N

Photo of The Courts Garden, a house & garden near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, south west England.

The Courts Garden

House & garden near Bradford-on-Avon

An early-1900s Arts and Crafts garden of hedged rooms, lily ponds and topiary.

4.8 km SW

Corsham Court

House & garden near Corsham

An Elizabethan house of 1582 with a picture gallery and Capability Brown grounds.

6.6 km N

Photo of Sandy Lane, a village in Wiltshire, south west England.

Sandy Lane

Village

Tiny estate hamlet of chocolate-box thatched cottages, including a thatched-roof church, between Chippenham and Devizes.

7.3 km NE · Wiltshire

Photo of St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton, a church in Wiltshire, south west England.

St Mary the Virgin, Steeple Ashton

Church near Steeple Ashton

A great Perpendicular Gothic church near Trowbridge, richly carved with grotesques and lierne vaulting, among the finest parish churches in the country.

7.4 km S

Photo of Biss Meadows Country Park, a country park near Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, south west England.

Biss Meadows Country Park

Country park near Steeple Ashton

A country park in Wiltshire.

7.9 km SW

Quoins Organic Vineyard

Vineyard near Bradford-on-Avon

Small organic vineyard on the edge of Bradford on Avon, one of only a handful in the UK with organic status.

8.2 km SW

Photo of Barton Farm Country Park, a country park near Bradford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds, Wiltshire, south west England.

Barton Farm Country Park

Country park near Bradford-on-Avon

A country park in Wiltshire.

8.7 km SW

Everything else within 10 km (19) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.