Malmesbury
Malmesbury is a community as well as civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market community it became popular in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning concentrated on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which creates an uncommon survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon duration it came to be the site of an abbey famed for its knowing and one of Alfred the Great's strengthened burhs for support against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first 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 homes. The additional numbers are given for The Abbey, the extra ecclesiastical church included in that of St Paul when this existed. Numbers from 1911 are for urban district and also after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was divided into 3 respective parishes, St Paul Within, St Paul Without and Abbey.
