Malmesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it ended up being prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for finding out concentrated on as well as around Malmesbury Abbey, the mass of which forms an uncommon survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. When the site of an Iron Age ft, in the Anglo-Saxon duration it ended up being the site of a monastery renowned for its understanding as well as among Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for protection against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of England, was hidden in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939. In 2011 the population reached 5,380 living in 2,280 houses. The additional figures are provided for The Abbey, the supplemental clerical parish added to that of St Paul when this existed. Numbers from 1911 are for city borough and after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was split right into 3 particular churches, St Paul Within, St Paul Without as well as Abbey.