Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Melksham. You may be able to find further references to Melksham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Melksham	hundred	Bartholomew
MELKSHAM	a town, a parish, a sub-district, district, and a hundred	Imperial
MELKSHAM	a town, a parish, a sub-district, district, and a hundred	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Melksham.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beanacre	tithing	Bartholomew
BEANACRE	a tything	Imperial
Blackmore	tithing	Bartholomew
BLACKMORE	a tything	Imperial
Cannonhold	tithing	Bartholomew
CANNONHOLD	a tything	Imperial
Seend	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
SEEND	a chapelry, with a village	Imperial
Shaw	village	Bartholomew
Shaw and Whitley	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SHAW and WHITLEY	a chapelry	Imperial
WHITLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Woodrow	hamlet	Bartholomew
WOODROW	a tything	Imperial

Travel writing

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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Shaw	0	3
Broughton Gifford	0	2
Whaddon	0	2
Littleton	0	3
Semington	0	2
Great Chalfield	0	2
Seend	3	2
Atworth	0	2
Great Hinton	0	2
Lacock	2	3
Bowden Hill	0	2
Hilperton	0	2
Holt	2	2
Little Chalfield	0	2
Cottles	0	1
Chittoe	0	2
Neston	0	1
Staverton	0	2
Keevil	0	2
Lackham	0	2