Malmesbury/ˈmɑːlmzbri/ or /ˈmɑːmzbri/ 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.
History
The hilltop contains several freshwater springs, which helped early settlements. It was the site of an Iron Age fort, and in the Anglo-Saxon period it had a monastery famed as a centre of learning. The town is listed in the Burghal Hidage as one of Alfred the Great's defended burhs assessed at 1200 hides, its Iron Age defences helping to provide protection against Viking attack. The town was described in the Domesday Book as a borough. Alfred's grandson, Æthelstan, the first king of England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey in 939.
The county, in the 9th century written as Wiltunscir, later Wiltonshire, is named after the former county town of Wilton.
History
Wiltshire is notable for its pre-Romanarchaeology. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Stonehenge and Avebury are perhaps the most famous Neolithic sites in the UK.
The constituency was represented for the whole of its existence by Caroline Jackson. At the 1994 European election, there were boundary changes. Most of Wiltshire then became part of the new Wiltshire North and Bath constituency, which again elected Caroline Jackson.
The constituency consisted of the whole historic county of Wiltshire. (Although Wiltshire contained a number of boroughs each of which elected two Members in their own right, the boroughs were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within a borough could confer a vote at the county election.)
Medieval and Tudor period
In medieval times, the custom in Wiltshire as elsewhere was for Members called knights of the shire to be elected at the county court by the suitors to the court, which meant the small number of nobles and other landowners who were tenants in chief of the Crown. Such county elections were held on the same day as the election of the members for the boroughs. Thus we find it recorded that in the first year of the reign of Henry V, "at a full County Court held at Wilton, Twenty-Six persons chose the Knights for the County, and the same individuals elected Two Citizens respectively for New Sarum, Old Sarum, Wilton, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough and Calne."
Staff that had been poised to work at the Bristol hub will now remain at the company’s headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, which is 30 miles from Bristol ... Staff will remain at the company’s headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
The vacuum and hairdryer maker, which announced the centre in 2023, will move 180 staff to its Malmesbury campus 30 miles away in Wiltshire, home to the DysonInstitute, where undergraduate and postgraduate engineers study while working for Dyson ... .
... cross in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, so that shoppers ‘might think upon their dear Saviour which died for them upon the Crosse’ and ‘rogues and cozeners may look upon it and cease them of their guile’.
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Irwin the emu. (SWNS). By Filipa Gaspar via SWNS ...MalmesburyAnimal Sanctuary in Wiltshire says "Irwin" disappeared during a number of weather warnings on Monday ... The emu vanished after heavy storms in the UK Monday. (SWNS) By Talker ... .
MalmesburyAnimal Sanctuary, in Wiltshire, said their 'beautiful' Emu Irwin had vanished overnight ... Malmesbury Animal Sanctuary, in Wiltshire, said their 'beautiful' Emu Irwin had vanished.
A search is on for an emu called Irwin feared to have lost its footing and slipped into a swollen Wiltshire river. MalmesburyAnimal Sanctuary said emus were strong swimmers ... It is not the first time the Malmesbury emus have been in the news.
Pothole vigilantism. Late byproduct of broken Britain. Endearingly amateurish ... Exactly ... At the start of the year, 19-year old Ben Thornbury was pictured fishing in rain-filled potholes in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, to highlight their impressive depth ... Share ... .
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Atlantic News Telegraph
02 Oct 2024
Atlantic News Telegraph
02 Oct 2024