Melksham's a great place for us to be based ... and for you to attend a course. It's close enough to London to be easy to reach, but far enough away to provide a quiet, cost effective training environment. It's a large enough town to have a good choice of eating and accommodation establishments, but it's small enough to avoid traffic and commuting problems.


Melksham traces it history back to the middle ages, and as recently as 200 years ago it was the largest town for many miles around. We're headquartered in a Georgian Spa building on the outskirts of the town, and our main training centre and hotel are an Edwardian building - just over 100 years old - that's set in its own grounds just five minutes walk from all the facilities of the town.

Our main training room, the "Wilts" will comfortably seat up to 16 delegates on a private course, but we limit numbers to just 8 on public courses so that we have plenty of time to look at each individual's needs. A second smaller training room - the "Berks" - is used for course that are run for just a handful of delelgates, and it's also used as a "breakout" room when we have bigger groups in.

We've got five large double / twin bedrooms, each with a large, flat screen TV (50 channels plus), large workdesk, fridge, laptop safe. All are en-suite and equipped to a level higher than you would expect to find in a typical hotel.

Our library, which is available to trainees throughout the course, includes some 600 books on the subjects on which we train as well as many other technical volumes. The books are there for your reference during a course, and we encourage you to use them in the evening too. Tea and coffee are always available.

We provide a superior continental breakfast for all hotel guests, and lunch for course delegates. sometimes we'll go out for lunch, more usually we eat in our dining room (the "Whitworth") or on warm summer days outside on the patio. Food varies from Chinese and Indian through Pizza to a cold buffet - we take a vote of trainees and cater to suit.

And - throughout Well House Manor - you'll find network points and a wireless internet connection that you're welcome to use during the course, during the evening ... or even at the weekend if you're visiting us to see Wiltshire.


Melksham's a few miles off the M4 motorway, and it has a fast train service too. Leave London at 17:30 the day before your course begins, change at Swidndon, and you'll be in Melksham for 19:08. Let us know if you're arriving on this train for your course, and we'll collect you from the station.

Courses start at 09:00 each day, and run through to 17:00. We usually finish a few minutes early on the last day so that our delegates can catch connections and make it home that night if they wish.

If you fly in to Bristol airport the evening before your course, we'll arrange a taxi to collect you from there - connections from Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris, Amsterdam and many other cities.


We've a good range of places to eat in Melksham; as well as the inevitable McDonald's, we have a wide range of pubs and restaurants (including French and Indian), and also takeaways where the range is as wide as Fish and chips to Caribbean, and Thai to Pizza. There's a swimming pool and a leisure centre in the town, and cinemas in Bath, Devizes and Chippenham, all of which can be reached by bus in the evening.




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Getting to and from Melksham
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  [2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles - (2009-08-20)
  [2057] Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham - (2009-02-26)
  [1997] Travelling to a course - station pickups - (2009-01-16)
  [1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor - (2008-09-19)
  [1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (2008-07-26)
  [1594] Please support improvements in our train service - (2008-03-28)
  [1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car - (2008-03-07)
  [1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
  [1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [856] The train returns for a few weeks - (2006-09-05)
  [814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007 - (2006-07-25)
  [796] Busy day in Melksham - (2006-07-08)
  [790] Shadow Transport Minister to visit Melksham - (2006-07-02)
  [715] First way to get rid of customers - (2006-05-09)
  [606] Train service from December - (2006-02-14)
  [538] A company we can work with - (2005-12-23)
  [486] Rail services under threat - Swindon, Melksham ... and Newquay and Bicester too - (2005-11-05)
  [413] Save the train - (2005-08-13)
  [187] a popular bus number - (2005-01-23)
  [154] Railway train service, Melksham station - (2004-12-17)
  [40] Take the train to training - (2004-09-06)

Coming to a course.
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  [2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-19)
  [1996] Advise before my Apache / Tomcat course - (2009-01-16)
  [1792] All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses - (2008-09-10)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [933] Course Joining package - updated - (2006-11-20)
  [898] Courses at Well House Manor - (2006-10-19)
  [695] In the hospitality business - (2006-04-23)
  [490] A new way to get lost - (2005-11-08)
  [464] Technical Loneliness - (2005-10-14)
  [306] Bristol Airport this morning, The Farm this evening. - (2005-05-09)
  [264] 100% Training - (2005-04-01)
  [2] Diary entry - 5th August 2004 - (2004-08-05)

Getting to and from Well House Manor
  [2493] Melksham buses to/from Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, London - (2009-11-05)
  [2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-19)
  [2248] Getting home from Melksham - (2009-06-19)
  [1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor - (2008-09-19)
  [1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
  [1452] Santa on the train to Melksham - (2007-12-01)
  [1382] First Great Western - information for customers - (2007-10-07)
  [1200] Training information - England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland - (2007-05-22)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007 - (2006-07-25)

Well House Manor - Around Melksham, Wiltshire
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  [2528] Melksham Christmas Lights - (2009-12-05)
  [2497] Brown horses in Melksham - (2009-11-08)
  [2480] Pantomimes around Melksham - 2009/2010 season - (2009-10-28)
  [2349] Businesses effected by road works in Melksham - (2009-08-11)
  [2329] Great to be in Melksham - (2009-08-08)
  [2297] Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival - (2009-07-19)
  [2262] History is not always pretty - (2009-06-30)
  [2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-21)
  [2175] Melksham in pictures - (2009-05-11)
  [2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock - (2009-05-10)
  [2142] Riverside Development - (2009-04-26)
  [2066] Melksham Industrial - (2009-03-04)
  [2064] East of Melksham Countryside - (2009-03-02)
  [2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham - (2009-02-15)
  [2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham - (2009-01-25)
  [1986] Walk to Bowerhill - (2009-01-10)
  [1977] Going round the block - (2009-01-04)
  [1928] Melksham Oak Secondary School, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-12-07)
  [1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs - (2007-12-01)
  [1436] A little touring help during a business trip to England - (2007-11-18)
  [1368] Getting the local voice heard - (2007-09-26)
  [1360] Asda in Melksham - Welcome or not? - (2007-09-21)
  [1343] Melksham Laundrette - (2007-09-09)
  [1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map. - (2007-09-09)
  [1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office - (2007-09-02)
  [1271] Till the cows come home - (2007-07-19)
  [1266] Party in the Park - (2007-07-14)
  [1206] Where and When - can you place the picture? - (2007-05-27)
  [1177] Sorting out for a site map - (2007-05-05)
  [1137] Wiltshire Circles - (2007-04-07)
  [1117] Newport Male Voice Choir - (2007-03-24)
  [977] Melksham and Norwich - (2006-12-10)
  [957] Improving the historic town of Melksham - (2006-11-30)
  [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17)
  [879] Tuesday night is party night - (2006-09-26)
  [866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer - (2006-09-15)
  [847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example - (2006-08-28)
  [830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden - (2006-08-12)
  [811] Melksham in Bloom - (2006-07-22)
  [805] Melksham Carnival Parade - (2006-07-16)
  [676] Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-04-08)
  [437] Outside of the box - (2005-09-06)

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At Well House Consultants, we provide training courses on subjects such as Ruby, Lua, Perl, Python, Linux, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Tomcat, PHP and MySQL. We're asked (and answer) many questions, and answers to those which are of general interest are published in this area of our site.