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	A Guided Walk Around Malmesbury
		One of the former tenants of the mill, one Cracker Clark, was a crack-shot wildfowler.
		Malmesbury people became commoners, holding strips of land and passing this heritage to elected descendants who could apply for common rights if they were resident in the Town and the married son of a commoner, or married to a commoner's daughter.
		From the Abbey door you face the Steeple, the bell tower and all that remains of the original parish church of St Paul's 15.
	www.yourguide.org.uk /malmesbury/mwalk.html (4307 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Malmesbury - Britannia's Magical History Tour
		William of Malmesbury (1095-1143), the town's connection to King Arthur, was the greatest historian of his time and was educated at the Abbey school.
		He was invited by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey to write a history of their monastic community and, in the course of his research, spent a great deal of time there.
		Malmesbury was the ancestral home of the Hanks family, and one charming tradition has it that the Wiltshire town was the birthplace of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic4.html (684 words)

	Malmesbury Town Guide - Corporation
		As a way of thanking the people of Malmesbury for their efforts in saving the town, King Athelstan gave them a stretch of land; five hundred acres of heath-land to the west of Malmesbury so the townsfolk had somewhere to keep their livestock and horses.
		As Malmesbury was in such a prime location, (on a knoll and natural moat, next to the Roman Fosseway and on the border of the Mercia Kingdom) it was a site of much interest to any invaders who came across it.
		Malmesbury was no exception and is a place which historians call a ‘rotten borough’.
	malmesbury.homestead.com /towncorporation.html (2126 words)

	Welcome to Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Lady Chapel was severely damaged by the fall of the Abbey spire at the end of the 15th century.
		Malmesbury Abbey was one of the last Monasteries to close at the Dissolution.
		After their return to London in 1990, The Abbey House was essentially unoccupied until the present family acquired it in 1994, a local interest group having kept a watching brief on the property in the interim.
	www.abbeyhousegardens.co.uk /housestory.htm (578 words)

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		The Abbey has seen many important visitors and the building is the final resting place of King Althelstan who's tomb is situated in the north aisle.
		Malmesbury has a history of "firsts", King Athelstan was the first King of England, the monk Eilmer became the first aeronaut when he flew a short distance from the top of the Abbey and in more recent times the inventor James Dyson developed and manufactured the first cyclone vacuum cleaner.
		The Old Bell Hotel next to the Abbey was once a guest house for the Abbey, on the opposite side of the Abbey is the Abbey House and Abbey House Gardens and in the town centre the 500 year old market cross, one of the finest in the country.
	members.lycos.co.uk /cotswoldgateway/malmesbury.htm (517 words)

	Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Community Information
		Malmesbury is an ancient place built on a steep hill almost encircled by the Tetbury and Sherston branches of the River Avon, which unite at the south of the town.
		Malmesbury Abbey was granted a 3 day fair, later extended to 8 days, around St. Aldhelm’s day in May by William I, while in 1252 there was a fair of St. James (25th July) on their Whitchurch manor.
		Malmesbury was of some strategic importance, being on the route from Oxford to Bristol and the west, and parts of its castle and most of the town walls were still standing.
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /community/getcom2.php?id=150 (3888 words)

	Air Force Link - Eilmer of Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Then, a young Benedictine monk leapt with a crude pair of cloth wings from a watchtower of a church abbey at the beginning of the 11th century.
		Of his wings, we can surmise that they were constructed of ash or willow-wand, covered with a light cloth, and perhaps attached to pivots on either side of a back-brace, with hand-holds so he could hopefully flap them.
		Given the geography of the Abbey, his landing site, and the account of his flight, he must have remained airborne about 15 seconds.
	www.af.mil /history/eilmerofmalmesbury.asp (534 words)

	Lyneham Village Online - Information Malmesbury
		Malmesbury lays claim to being the oldest borough in England.
		Incorrectly claimed by some to be the first King of All England, Æthelstan was a great warrior, nonetheless, whose fame stemmed from his conquests in Cornwall and Wales, and his defeat of a combined force of Scots, Welsh and Vikings at the battle of Brunanburh in 938.
		Mr James Dyson is symptomatic with Malmesbury, having developed the Dual Cyclone™ system, which was the first breakthrough in technology since the invention of the vacuum cleaner in 1901.
	www.lynehamvillage.com /info/towns/malmesbury.html (570 words)

	Cotswold HyperGuide - Malmesbury
		Because it was a natural strongpoint the Saxons occupied the hill at an early date and an Irish monk Maildulph formed a hermitage close to the castle in 642.
		The abbey was sold by Henry VIII's commissioners in 1539 for the (then) massive sum of £1517 15s 2p to William Stumpe, a clothier, who used the building briefly for business purposes and then presented it to the people of Malmesbury as their church.
		Norman carvings of the Apostles inside the South Porch, considered to be among the finest in England.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/towns/malmes.htm (838 words)

	English Abbeys - Malmesbury Abbey
		In common with many of these great buildings, Malmesbury Abbey has had its fair share of misfortunes and disasters, resulting in the changing faces of the abbey throughout the last 800 years.
		Following the Dissolution, the remains of the Malmesbury Abbey became the parish church, but c1662 the West Tower fell and destroyed three of the western nave bays.
		Malmesbury is such a spectacular abbey, in a quiet unassuming way, and holds an enormous wealth of interesting history and famous connections, both royal and monastic, that it would be a tragedy not to take any opportunity to visit.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /abbeys/malmesbury_abbey.htm (471 words)

	House of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Malmesbury \| British History Online
		The internal history of the abbey during the first half of the 11th century is largely obscure: William relates several miracles worked at the shrine of St. Aldhelm (fn.
		It was early in the abbacy of Peter, perhaps in 1143, that William of Malmesbury died.
		At Malmesbury perhaps the most important memorial of de Camme's abbacy was the acquisition, largely by the help of William de Camme his brother, of a very large property at Lincoln's Inn in Holborn.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36532 (14991 words)

	Malmesbury Civic Trust River Walk
		Artists often drew the north view of the Abbey in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries.
		Abbey House is to the left of the Abbey on top of the ridge.
		Daniel's Well is named after an early Abbot of whom the medieval historian William of Malmesbury wrote; "That he might reduce the force of his rebellious body, he used to immerse himself up to his shoulders in a spring near the monastery.
	www.davidforward.co.uk /riverwalk/riverwalk.php (2171 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Malmesbury
		Returning to Malmesbury between 671 and 675, he was placed in charge of the school, and appointed abbot of a monastery founded there by Lothair (Leutherius), Bishop of Dorchester.
		The abbey church was a vast and noble building with a western tower, and a central tower and spire seven yards higher than that of Salisbury Cathedral.
		Of the whole abbey only five bays of the nave are standing; the cloisters, etc., which were to the north of the church, have entirely disappeared.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09572c.htm (562 words)

	BBC - History - Malmesbury: England's Oldest Borough
		Malmesbury is the oldest borough in England, with a charter given by Alfred the Great around 880.
		The town is dominated by the now ruined abbey at its centre.
		Only a third of the abbey has survived, but in the Middle Ages the building had a tall central spire, reaching 7m (23ft) higher than Salisbury Cathedral's 123m- (404ft) high spire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/anglo_saxons/malmesbury_01.shtml (299 words)

	A few pictures from Malmesbury - Wiltshire
		Malmesbury in the northwest of Wiltshire is probably best know for it's abbey (see two pictures above).
		Malmesbury Abbey was founded in the seventh century, although only the nave has survived until today.
		Abbey House Gardens is a lovely garden on the grounds of the old abbey.
	www.armin-grewe.com /holiday/wiltshire/malmesbury.htm (280 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William of Malmesbury
		He was educated at Malmesbury, where he became a monk.
		After this he spent ten years in forming a collection of historical and legal materials, now in the Bodleian library, and writing a history of Glastonbury and its saints, in which he speaks as though he were, for the time at least, an inmate of that abbey.
		About 1140 he made revisions of the two works "Gesta Regum" and "Gesta Pontificum", and began a new work "Historia novella", a sequel to the former, dealing with the period 1125-42, but in such a desultory way as to show that we have rather the first draft of a book than a completed work.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15633d.htm (377 words)

	Malmesbury Town Council, Wiltshire, England
		Reputed to be England's Oldest Borough - Established 880 AD Malmesbury is a special place, sacred and full of history yet vibrant and at the cutting-edge of new technology.
		Until that time Malmesbury was a walled town with gates, to regulate the comings and goings of the people of this important and busy market town, but at the time of the Commonwealth the defences were slighted and were never to be rebuilt.
		The whole of the northern part of the town would have been covered with monastic buildings and it is difficult for us to imagine the vast offices of the Abbey as it would have been seen until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the middle sixteenth century.
	www.malmesbury.gov.uk (456 words)

	Malmesbury Town Guide - Tour of the Town
		Malmesbury has a group of bellringers who regularly practice here, they also perform at events like weddings for the neighbouring Abbey.
		Malmesbury had everything which was needed to create a new town.
		During this time Christianity had spread across Europe like wildfire and the original Monastery in Malmesbury was considered so grand and purposeful that historians now believe it was the third most significant church in the UK (behind Winchester and Cantebury).
	malmesbury.homestead.com /TownTour.html (4701 words)

	Malmesbury Millennium Plaques in the Abbey Steps
		They chart Malmesbury's rich history, from its earliest incarnation as an Iron Age hill fort, to the town in the year 2000.
		Each plaque has been sponsored by a different group; Wiltshire County Council, Malmesbury Town Council, North Wiltshire District Council, The Warden and Freemen of Malmesbury, Malmesbury Schools, Malmesbury Businesses, Malmesbury Carnival Committee, Malmesbury Civic Trust and the ninth plaque was sponsored by Malmesbury Preservation Trust.
		So if ever you find your self referred for physio therapy at Malmesbury Hospital, it wont be the Burton Hill site you're looking for but the Abbey Iron Man Assault Course where Elmer recuperated after his flight of fancy.
	www.malmesbury-memories.co.uk /28.html (507 words)

	Malmesbury Abbey - St Pauls Tower
		Aubrey (1685) relates that there was a great (Bourdon) bell at Malmesbury Abbey dedicated as St. Aldhelm's bell - "which was rung when it did thunder and lighten to send the Tempest from the Town into the Country".
		Bells were later to be found in the western tower of the Abbey, and it is rumoured that in 1660 the bellringers "fired" the bells in honour of the restoration of the King.
		The Abbey bellringers later settled in the tower of St. Paul's church and over the next two centuries a ring of five bells was established.
	www.maildulf.demon.co.uk /tower.htm (597 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		Malmesbury Abbey was one of the few English minsters which had a continuous existence from the seventh to the sixteenth century, and the Malmesbury archive is a particularly important witness to the history of Wessex and the West Saxon church in the pre-Viking period.
		The Malmesbury archive poses a particularly difficult editorial challenge, since the manuscripts are generally late and the abbey's scribes were prone to forgery and the 'improvement' of their muniments.
		Charters of Malmesbury Abbey is comprised of editions of thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary surveys, with expert detailed commentaries on their historical and topographical importance.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780197263174 (446 words)

	Malmesbury Wiltshire - Town Guide
		Malmesbury lies about six miles north of Junction 17 of the M4, on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.
		The town is famous for its Abbey though only a part of the Abbey Church now remains.
		With the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Abbey was sold by Henry VIII's commissioners to William Stumpe, a clothier, who used the building as workshops.
	www.yourguide.org.uk /malmesbury/index.html (336 words)

	U.K., 2003
		Malmesbury Abbey was a center of pilgrimage because it is the burial place of St.Aldhelm and King Athelstan and because it contained sacred relics which were important in Medieval pilgrimages.
		There is no admission charge to this Abbey, but the church is only supported by the people who worship there and donations by visitors.
		The Abbey has continued to be the focus of Malmesbury community life for 1200 years or more..
	www.ruudleeuw.com /trv-uk2003.htm (669 words)

	Mrs Woodward's Memories of Old Malmesbury 1964
		As most of you know, Malmesbury was once a walled City, of Maildulph with two gateways, one at Holloway, and one at Westport end.
		The oldest house in Malmesbury is one in Burnivale.
		Malmesbury had a good town band and was engaged to play at most of the flower shows around the district.
	www.davidforward.co.uk /town/woodward.php (2923 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury
		The present Abbey was not built until nearly two centuries later, but it is likely that though the main building was smaller, the tower would have been around the same height as the present structure.
		William of Malmesbury, also known as William Somerset, died about 1143 and ranks only after the scholar-monk, the Venerable Bede, as the greatest of the English medieval historians.
		William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/monk.html (584 words)

	Malmesbury Hotels \| accommodation - hotels in Malmesbury Wiltshire Cotswolds
		Malmesbury is England’s oldest borough with the remains of its impressive Norman Abbey and the Market Cross, one of the finest surviving medieval market crosses in England.
		Malmesbury Town Hall dates from the middle of the 19th century and is used for a wide variety of community activities.
		The Old Bell, reputed to be England's oldest purpose built hotel, is adjacent to the famous Abbey in the historic town of Malmesbury on the edge of the Cotswolds.
	www.kayukay.co.uk /malmesburyhotels.html (607 words)

	Malmesbury News
		A well known figure around Malmesbury, Henry is an ardent Swindon Town supporter, and can be seen regularly on his bicycle in his distinctive red jumper, or helping out with a variety of jobs, particularly at the Abbey.
		Since then he has been a fixture at the Abbey, proving invaluable to the staff with the variety of jobs he is prepared to undertake.
		At the morning service in the Abbey on Sunday 16th, Henry proudly showed off his award and thanked the congregation for the support he had received from them over the years.
	www.malmesbury.co.uk /malmesbury/news.htm (333 words)

	Abbey House Gardens: Malmesbury Wiltshire SN16 9AS
		Abbey House Gardens is a 5 acre garden in the beautiful and historic Cotswolds town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
		Abbey House Gardens is an enchanting garden which has been lovingly restored by Barbara and Ian Pollard.
		Visitors can enjoy the experience, smells of the scented roses as their aroma fills the early summer air, marvel or relax and, if you're a gardener, to be be inspired.
	www.thecotswoldgateway.co.uk /abbeyhousegardens.htm (254 words)

	William of Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stained glass window showing William, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1928 in memory of Rev. Canon C. McMillan, Vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919.
		The Abbey was completed in 1180 AD, and remains in use as the parish church of Malmesbury.
		The education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of logic and physics; but moral philosophy was the subject to which he devoted most attention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Malmesbury (664 words)

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