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Melksham Hundred, Wiltshire is in Wiltshire.
The Gloucestershire River Avon rises near Acton Turville, Gloucestershire [Map] after which it flows past Luckington, Wiltshire [Map], Sherston, Wiltshire [Map], Easton Grey, Wiltshire [Map], Malmesbury, Wiltshire [Map], Great Somerford, Wiltshire [Map], Christian Malford, Wiltshire [Map], Chippenham, Wiltshire [Map], Melksham, Wiltshire [Map], Bradford on Avon [Map], under the Dundas Aquaduct, Wiltshire [Map], through Bath, Somerset [Map], past Keynsham, Gloucestershire [Map], through Bristol [Map] under the Clifton Suspension Bridge [Map] to Avonmouth, Gloucestershire [Map] where it joins the Severn Estuary.
Around 1697 Mary Webb Duchess Somerset was born to Daniel Webb of Monkton Farleigh (age 35) and Elizabeth Somner (age 28) in Seend, Melksham, Wiltshire. She married 8th March 1716 Edward Seymour 8th Duke of Somerset, son of Edward Seymour 5th Baronet and Laetitia Popham Baroness Seymour, and had issue.
On 21st April 1715 Elizabeth Somner (age 46) died. She was buried at the Holy Cross Church, Seend.