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Some other articles M202 - West Wiltshire Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire Rambling from Westbury Walking by the wiver Swindon to Trowbridge - transport and travel options Which West Wilts Town? A picture quiz for you West Wilts Rail User Group - Walk yesterday from Bradford-on-Avon to Trowbridge Images of a Spring Walk Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury Atworth Village Fete - on the Melksham Community Area Partnership stand Old trackways and routes near Melksham Blowing out the winter cobwebs Hot Tap at West Wilts Show See us at the West Wilts Show Trowbridge - a missed opportunity? Melksham - into the breach? This article Patterns in street names Seend, near Melksham, Wiltshire At the Westbury Bypass Enquiry Businesses in West Wiltshire - networking Westbury Bypass - how it would effect Melksham As I came back from Tesco Dilton Marsh Hotel for Trowbridge Bratton and Edington new town, Wiltshire Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire Celebration circles Dramatic Skys at Longleat Computers, Brides and Cream Teas Melksham Railway Calendar 2007 Minimal Signage The Courts, Holt Pictures from my travels M201 - Around Melksham, Wiltshire Pretty at the station too Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham Around and about - Melksham Tell me a bit about Melksham After the storm My pictures of Melksham Carnival, 13th July 2013 Melksham - Flower Town New Pictures - Melksham Pack Horse Bridge Melksham welcomes visitors - new blue plaque trail and more Picture - between Lacock and Melksham Melksham Spa from Woolmore Farm Melksham Christmas Lights, 2012 Autumn scenes from Melksham How have Melksham shops changed in 60 years? Guest Guide for Well House Manor and Melksham Evening behind Melksham Spa Town Clean - Melksham Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures Short Web Addresses for Melksham A walk around Melksham this morning. Can you place all of these? Melksham ATC - freedom of the town Some unpublished and historic pictures - Museum of Melksham The Bowerhill Villager - a newsletter for Bowerhill, Melksham A Museum for Melksham History. Open from 12th May 2012. Events in Melksham - read all about them, and tell us about yours Deeper than Art - An exhibition of the tattoo Canvas - Melksham Welcome to Melksham - our new communities Basham Festival, Melksham, early August 2012 - a welcome TrainWest 2012 - 14th and 15th April, Melksham, Wiltshire Along the brook - East Melksham to Melksham Exploring Melksham with a film maker The way of the Prioress - Melksham history pictured today Snow comes to Melksham, Wiltshire - pictures Images of the new year in Melksham Some different pictures from Melksham Melksham has a Heart - Montage picture for sale Melksham has a heart - come and see the pictures. Sunday, 11 to 3, Assembly Hall Quintessentially English - scenes from our Wiltshire town Melksham Forward - meeting summary and pictures Sunday Evening ... newest and oldest Melksham pictures Images of Melksham Currently pictured in Melksham Plenty to do in Melksham Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station Getting away from the madding crowd - an intercontinental journey Easter on the Canal - near Melksham, Wiltshire Morning in Melksham What have these pictures in common? Around and about Melksham in more pictures Her favourite store Seeing Electricity Pylons near Melksham Views of Melksham - November 2010 Autumn walk from Bowerhill Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, turns first sod in Melksham Link Canal Melksham Food and Drink Fair and Town Crier Competition Dauncey Gardens, Melksham Melksham Scouts Melksham in Pictures The bull on the footpath New brochures for the Melksham area Early Spring walk in Melksham Freddies Wood and the K and A Canal Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future Melksham Christmas Lights Brown horses in Melksham Pantomimes around Melksham - 2009/2010 season Businesses effected by road works in Melksham Great to be in Melksham Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival History is not always pretty Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire Melksham in pictures In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock This article Melksham Industrial East of Melksham Countryside Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham Walk to Bowerhill Going round the block Melksham Oak Community School, Melksham, Wiltshire More PHP sample and demonstration programs A little touring help during a business trip to England Getting the local voice heard Asda in Melksham - Welcome or not? 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Bradford-on-Avon is about six miles from Melksham, and another of the five towns on West Wiltshire; in fact it's the smallest, about half the size of Melksham. We popped over there at lunch time today and it was lovely to see people out with their boats, children and dogs. Vibrant, and we had to queue for lunch. Yet this canal was abandoned in the 1950s and not re-opened for fifty years. In the Kennet and Avon Canal, you can see how an unused resource can be restored and can become a key element of the local economy.
The Wilts and Berks Canal used to pass through Melksham. The old course, long abandoned and built over, passes a few yards from Well House Manor and there's no practical way that it will be restored on its old course. But it could be brought through the town up the course of the River Avon, and rejoining the old course of the canal a mile or two to the north.