Malmesbury
Malmesbury is a community and also civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it came to be popular in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which creates an unusual survival of the dissolution of the abbeys. As soon as the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon duration it ended up being the site of a monastery famous for its understanding and also among Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for protection against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the very first king of England, was hidden in Malmesbury Abbey when he passed away in 939. In 2011 the population got to 5,380 living in 2,280 residences. The added figures are provided for The Abbey, the extra clerical parish added to that of St Paul when this existed. Figures from 1911 are for urban borough as well as after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was split into three particular churches, St Paul Within, St Paul Without and Abbey.