One Of Englands Best Kept
Secrets...

King Athelstan made Malmesbury England's capital in 925.

The last known person to be eaten by a tiger in England was Malmesbury resident Hannah Twnnoy.

Abraham Lincoln's descendants can be traced to back to Malmesbury.

The hotel stands on the site of a Saxon castle built by Alfred the Great (of burnt cakes fame) George Washington's family came from a village two miles away.

Between 1000 and 1010, Elmer a monk from the Abbey, built the worlds first glider. He flew 200 yards crashed in Daniels Well breaking his legs.