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The town is famous for its Abbey though only a part of the Abbey Church now remains. The surviving building is only around two thirds of the nave, of the original. It was from a tower here that Elmer, the flying monk, leaped in c.1000AD. in his attempt to be the first man to fly. He travelled more than a furlong, but broke both his legs! Athelstan first King of all England is said to have been buried here in 939 AD. So too is Hannah Twynnoy, a barmaid mauled to death by a tiger in a travelling menagerie.

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. Stumpe must have been both rich and influential as at the same time he also bought Osney Abbey at Oxford.

That's just a taste of old Malmesbury, for more on the town's buildings and history take the town tour.