Malmesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it came to be prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning concentrated on as well as around Malmesbury Abbey, the mass of which forms an uncommon survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. As soon as the site of an Iron Age ft, in the Anglo-Saxon duration it came to be the site of a monastery famed for its discovering and also one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for support against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the initial king of England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939. In 2011 the population got to 5,380 living in 2,280 residences. The additional numbers are offered for The Abbey, the supplemental ecclesiastical parish included in that of St Paul when this existed. Numbers from 1911 are for urban district as well as after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was divided into 3 respective churches, St Paul Within, St Paul Without and also Abbey.