Walks you can reach from Melksham by train
Wiltshire · South West England
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Chippenham Circular via Lacock (Wiltshire)
9 minutes direct from Melksham.
Flat fields, river meadows, canal path, farmland, small woods and residential streets.
Lacock (National Trust; 3h30 to visit)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Westbury to Warminster (Wiltshire)
15 minutes direct from Melksham.
Chalk downland, Iron Age hillforts, five hills, Salisbury Plain military range, abandoned village and sweeping views over Wiltshire and Somerset.
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Bath Spa to Frome (Somerset)
30 minutes direct from Melksham.
Recommended: A great walk. A great walk with a good variety of open fields, woodland, stony tracks and a disused-railway cycle track and with very little on roads. Muddy at some points; a very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down if walked from Frome.
Hilly: a quarter on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).
Lunch: A pub at Norton St Philip, mid-route, makes a good coffee stop.
Warnings: A very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Trowbridge to Bath Spa (Wiltshire)
9 minutes direct from Melksham.
Beautiful walk; fantastic. Canal towpath with fields.
Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).
Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).
1 lunch spot: Prior Park Landscape Garden kiosk
Warnings: Short stretch on a fast-traffic road with limited verge.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Westbury to Freshford (Wiltshire)
15 minutes direct from Melksham.
Beautiful; picturesque. Riverside path with woodland.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Frome to Dilton Marsh (Somerset)
30 minutes direct from Melksham.
Frome to Bradford-on-Avon (Somerset)
30 minutes direct from Melksham.
Significantly more attractive. A quiet, safe route to the west of the B3090, slightly longer than alternatives but avoiding busy-road crossings and partly alongside Orchardleigh lake.
Westwood Manor: Fifteenth-century stone manor house (National Trust; 1h to visit).
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Dilton Marsh to Trowbridge (Wiltshire)
9 minutes direct from Melksham.
Freshford to Trowbridge (Somerset)
9 minutes direct from Melksham.
Bradford-on-Avon to Chippenham (Wiltshire)
9 minutes direct from Melksham.
Avoncliff to Westbury (Wiltshire)
15 minutes direct from Melksham.
Pleasant. Canal towpath with fields and with moderate climbs.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Dilton Marsh to Westbury (Wiltshire)
15 minutes direct from Melksham.
Hill paths and with moderate climbs.
Warnings: Can be slippery in wet weather.
Walk details: Railwalks.