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6 unusual facts about Malmesbury


Alfred of Malmesbury

Alfred (or Aelfric) (died 999), abbot of Malmesbury, England, and afterwards (in 990) bishop of Crediton, was a writer of some celebrity in the tenth century.

Malmesbury Hundred

Malmesbury was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the north of the county and centring on the historic borough and market town of Malmesbury.

Malmesbury, Western Cape

Malmesbury was named after Sir Lowry Cole's father-in-law, the Earl of Malmesbury.

Milnerton

Paddlers have paddled down the Diep River to the sea from as far up stream as Malmesbury.

North Hykeham

A foundry, Lincoln Castings, on Station Road closed in February 2007; the last owners were the Meade Corporation of Malmesbury.

Wiltshire Record Society

2: Accounts of the parliamentary garrisons of Great Chalfield and Malmesbury, 1645–1646, H. P. Pafford, 1940


Aldhelm

Aldhelm received his first education in the school of an Irish scholar and monk, Máeldub (also Maildubh, Maildulf or Meldun) (died c. 675), who had settled in the British stronghold of Bladon (or Bladow) on the site of the town called Mailduberi, Maldubesburg, Meldunesburg, etc., and finally Malmesbury, after him.

Alexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport

They married at the church of St John the Baptist, Charlton Park, Malmesbury on 8 June 2013: guests included Princess Michael of Kent, Tom Parker Bowles.

Charminster, Bournemouth

In the 1860s the Earl of Malmesbury, working with the architect and designer Christopher Crabb Creeke, drew up plans to build over Charminster.

George Bowyer

Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet (1783–1860), British Whig MP for Malmesbury and Abingdon

Hannah Twynnoy

Twynnoy, by repute and according to a memorial plaque now lost, was an early 18th-century barmaid working in a pub in the centre of the English market town of Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury

James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury GCB, PC (25 March 1807 – 17 May 1889), styled Viscount FitzHarris from 1820 to 1841, was a British statesman of the Victorian era.

James Stumpe

Sir James Stumpe (by 1519-63), of Malmesbury and Bromham, Wiltshire, was an English clothier and Member of Parliament.

Malmesbury Branch Line

On 29 November a special inspection train conveying Sir Daniel Gooch and others ran on the line; on 12 December a cattle train left Malmesbury for the main line.

Marine geology of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay

Cape Blue Rock, a dense Hornfels, was formed from the Malmesbury series rock by the Stellenbosch pluton, and was quarried as a building aggregate near Sir Lowry's Pass.

William Abdy

Sir William Abdy, 7th Baronet (1779–1868), English landowner and Member of Parliament for Malmesbury

WOMAD Charlton Park

WOMAD Charlton Park is the name given to the World of Music Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival held in Charlton Park in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, since 2007.


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