Melksham

Melksham is a town on the River Avon in Wiltshire, England, around 4 1⁄2 miles upper east of Trowbridge and 6 mi south of Chippenham. At the 2011 registration, it had a populace of 19,357, making it Wiltshire's fifth-biggest town after Swindon, Salisbury, Chippenham and Trowbridge. Melksham has an Assembly Hall and the Rachel Fowler Center while a large number of the encompassing towns have a network lobbies which offer a wide assortment of exercises. Melksham Oak Community School offers an assortment of wearing and social offices to the network of Melksham.

The town has a yearly 'Gathering in the Park' which as a rule happens in July. It incorporates a reasonable with rides and beguilements, a firecrackers show, a phase facilitating melodic and move acts and a fair motorcade through the town with buoys advancing neighborhood organizations and clubs and fund-raising for philanthropy. Melksham Independent News is the town's family-possessed free daily paper, set up in 1981. More than 13,700 duplicates of the paper are circulated over the town and encompassing towns every other week.

In 1539 the prioress and nuns of Amesbury surrendered to the lord their Melksham bequests, which they had held for around 250 years. This property, which comprised of the Lordship of the Manor and Hundred, was in 1541 allowed to Sir Thomas Seymour. Seymour at that point sold it to Henry Brouncker, who had officially made buys of land in the area. At some questionable date, maybe around 1550, Brouncker manufactured a living arrangement for himself on the site of a prior manor. This was known as Place House, worked in a style reasonable to that of an inhabitant ruler, who was likewise a man of significant riches.