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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (Upton), Limpley Stoke, Luckington, Lydiard Tregoze, Melksham, Poulshot, 2 Purton Stoke, Rodbourne Cheney, Rowde, … none succeeded in becoming fashionable, four-Holt, Box, Melksham, and Purton Stoke-had some sort of success and are … Ashton (1731), Chippenham (1750), Box (Middlehill) (1786), Melksham (1813), Purton Stoke (1859). It seems fairly clear …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… other conveyances', from Devizes, Chippenham, Calne, and Melksham. The field costume of the newly formed hunt was … Club), Chippenham, and Warminster, 192 and in 1841 at Melksham. 193 In 1848 a club was formed at Corsham by Lord … Bemerton. Later matches were played also at Chippenham and Melksham. In 1902 G. L. Palmer and C. Awdry handed over to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Trowbridge, union and hundred of Melksham, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to Devizes crosses the north of the parish, and that from Melksham to Westbury runs through Semington and so … the village are scattered along this road; on the Westbury-Melksham road which crosses it is a group of five pairs of … Many of its houses are built along the main road from Melksham to Westbury, which is crossed by the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… and extent of lands held by John Ward, and others, in Melksham Forest, co. Wilts. Total, 70 acres; fines, 104 l. 6 … Ernley, and others, the King's tenants, in Chippenham and Melksham forests, co. Wilts. Latin. [Jan.] 2. Bill, by Att. … and others, the King's tenants, in Chippenham and Melksham forests, co. Wilts. Total, 590 acres; fines, 754 l. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Park. The manor house was not inhabited in May 1821. Melksham. Increase partly attributed to the discovery of a … for the chapelry of Semington included 179 persons in Melksham Union Workhouse. Bedwyn, Great. Included 5 persons … for the chapelry of Semington included 192 persons in the Melksham Union Workhouse. Decrease in Steeple Ashton and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 'Spanish' was fine cloth. 86 Bradford, Trowbridge, and Melksham were pre-eminently the Spanish cloth towns, but even … 'Mount Mill', and Norton (Norton Bavant). Westbury. Melksham and Seend, and South Newton. Slaughterford and … In November there was rioting in Bradford, Trowbridge, Melksham, and Frome, and a man was killed in Wiltshire when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… down by 1972. Devizes, formerly a mission attached to Melksham, became the head of a circuit in 1828. 419 It so …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was turnpiked as far as West Lavington in 17501 and the Melksham road as far as Seend at the same time. 50 Thus by … them, as they approached the town, better still. 52 The Melksham and Chippenham roads, which now part company at the … now marked by the Bath Road bridge over the canal. The Melksham road ran along the line of the present St. Joseph's …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Usually it was below Wilton and above Salisbury and Melksham. 3 In 1212, with Marlborough, Salisbury, and Wilton, … in Pans Lane. 288 By fusion with a similar company in Melksham this became the Wilts. United Dairies, Ltd., in 1897 …