Seend is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the market town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England.

The village's High Street is the A361 Trowbridge-Devizes road; the A365 links the A361 with Melksham and passes through Sells Green.

[3] The earliest known record of the tenancy of the manor of Seend dates from 1190 when it was held by Wigan of Cherburgh.

[3] Wigan's descendants held the manor until 1297 when John of Cherburgh granted it to Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester.

[3] In 1341 Margaret died and livery of seisin was granted to Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.

[3] The second Baron died in 1533 and his executors sold Seend manor to William Sharington of Lacock in 1539.

[3] Mildmay died in 1617, and Grace in 1620, leaving Seend to their daughter Mary and son-in-law Francis Fane, who was created 1st Earl of Westmorland in 1624.

[3] Seend remained in the family until Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmorland sold it to Sir Richard Blake in 1668.

[3] After their deaths, Seend passed to Elizabeth and Sir Richard's daughter Mary, who was married to a Robert Dormer.

[3] When it was made a separate parish and perpetual curacy in 1873, it was stated that Seend already had full rights to conduct baptisms, churchings, marriages and burials.

The oldest work is the lower parts of the low west tower, which predates the late-15th-century[3] Perpendicular Gothic nave and its high clerestory.

[5] The Perpendicular Gothic north aisle – described as "showy" by Orbach[6] – is also late 15th century,[5] paid for by the clothier John Stokes (died 1498).

Construction of Seend Methodist Chapel began in 1774 and was completed in 1775; it was opened by John Wesley.

[3] The building is in red brick with ashlar stone quoins and lancet windows in an Early English style, grouped in pairs and triplets.

[22] Seend House, west of the parish church and also Grade II* listed, was built in the early 19th century.

[7] Hill Farm house in the High Street dates from the 15th century[3] and has partly original timber framing[7] including a cruck.

Also on the High Street, Dial House has its origins in the 15th century with its ashlar chimney breast, but the rest is 18th-century red-brick facings.

[3] In 1815 a saline spring was discovered and a spa company was founded, which built a pump room and houses for visitors.

[3] Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting is now a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

[29] His children with his wife Hannah included Cory (1875–1961), army officer in the Second Boer War and First World War, elected twice as MP for Devizes, and High Sheriff in 1932; and Clive (1881–1964), the art critic and writer, who married the artist Vanessa Stephen, sister of the author Virginia Woolf.

Antiques dealer and TV presenter Paul Martin and family moved to Seend in 2007.