Malmesbury
Malmesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. As a market town it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for finding out concentrated on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the mass of which forms an unusual survival of the dissolution of the abbeys. When the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it ended up being the site of a monastery renowned for its learning as well as one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for support versus the Vikings. Æthelstan, the very first king of England, was hidden in Malmesbury Abbey when he passed away in 939. In 2011 the population reached 5,380 living in 2,280 homes. The extra figures are offered for The Abbey, the additional clerical parish included in that of St Paul when this existed. Figures from 1911 are for urbane borough and also after 1961 for ward. For 1901 the area was split into 3 respective parishes, St Paul Within, St Paul Without as well as Abbey.