Malmesbury
Malmesbury is a town and also civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it became noticeable in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning concentrated on as well as around Malmesbury Abbey, the mass of which forms an unusual survival of the dissolution of the abbeys. When the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it ended up being the site of an abbey famed for its knowing and also among Alfred the Great's strengthened burhs for protection against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the initial king of England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he passed away in 939. In 2011 the population reached 5,380 living in 2,280 residences. The added figures are provided for The Abbey, the extra clerical parish contributed to that of St Paul when this existed. Figures from 1911 are for city borough as well as after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was split into 3 respective churches, St Paul Within, St Paul Without as well as Abbey.
