Malmesbury is a town as well as civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it ended up being popular in the Middle Ages as a centre for discovering focused on as well as around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which creates an uncommon survival of the dissolution of the abbeys. Once the site of an Iron Age ft, in the Anglo-Saxon duration it came to be the site of a monastery famous for its knowing and among Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for support versus the Vikings. Æthelstan, the 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 homes. The additional numbers are provided for The Abbey, the extra clerical parish added to that of St Paul when this existed. Numbers from 1911 are for metropolitan borough as well as after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was divided into 3 corresponding churches, St Paul Within, St Paul Without and Abbey.