What is "malmesbury"

Malmesbury is a market town in Wiltshire, England

Malmesbury or Malmsbury may also refer to:

• Malmesbury, Western Cape, a farming town in South Africa
• Malmsbury, Victoria, a town in Australia

• Malmesbury Abbey, Benedictine abbey in Wiltshire, United Kingdom
• The Earl of Malmesbury, a title in the peerage of Great Britain
• William of Malmesbury, an English historian of the 12th century

Malmesbury was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1275 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

Malmesbury or is a market town and civil parish in the southern Cotswolds in the county of Wiltshire, England. Technology company Dyson is headquartered in Malmesbury which remains a market town and became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it became the site of a monastery famed for its learning and one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of England was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939.