Malmesbury
Malmesbury names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Malmesbury a market town of Wiltshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a market town of Wiltshire, England; on a bold eminence between the two head streams of the Avon, 26 miles N. N. E. of Bath. It owes its name to Maildulf, an Irish missionary. Aldhelm, his scholar, became about 673 first abbot of the famous abbey here, in which Athelstan was buried, and of which William of Malmesbury was librarian and precentor in the first half of the 12th century. To his time belong the building of a short-lived castle, and the rebuilding (also by Bishop Roger of Salisbury) of the abbey church, which, Transition Norman in style, and cruci form in plan, with a central spire, was 350 feet long. Little more than the nave -now the parish church-remains; but this is a most interesting fragment, its finest feature the S. porch. At the Dis solution (1539) the mitered Benedictine beautiabbey became a cloth factory. A ful market cross (temp. Henry VII.) is Hobbes was a native of noteworthy. Malmesbury. Pop. (1920) about 2,700.
Malmesbury WILLIAM OF. See WILLIAM
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM OF. See WILLIAM. MALMÖ (mäl'muh), the third largest town of Sweden, on the Sound, nearly opposite to and 17 miles from Copenhagen; besides being a busy seaport, it has manufactures of cigars, sugar, Leer, and woolens, and some shipbuilding; the exports (chiefly grain, flour, butter, eggs, cement, chalk, matches, live stock, and timber) are carried away every year in about 3,500 vessels of 750,000 tons burden, and the imports ( coal, machinery, cotton, grain, textiles, coffee, etc.), brought by 3,600 vessels of 720,000 tons; the town hall is a fine Renaissance building of 1546. The only remaining part of the old fortifications is the castle inwhich the Earl of Bothwell was confined; it is now used as a prison. Down to the 16th century Malmö was one of the busiest commercial towns in that part of the Baltic. In 1523 a treaty of peace between the Danes and Gustavus Vasa was signed here. Pop. (1918) 112,521.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's description of 1921 still fits the Wiltshire town: the Transitional Norman nave of Aldhelm's abbey remains the parish church, its south porch remains the finest thing in it, and the late-medieval market cross still stands in the street. The population has roughly doubled from the "about 2,700" recorded for 1920 to somewhere near 5,000 comma and the biggest single change is economic rather than architectural — since 1993 Malmesbury has been the headquarters of Dyson, whose research campus is now the town's dominant employer. The other Malmesbury entry, the cross-reference to William of Malmesbury, needs no revision. The neighbouring article on Malmö has dated far more: the Swedish city Collier's put at 112,521 people now holds over 350,000, and since 2000 the Øresund Bridge has carried road and rail traffic across the Sound to Copenhagen.
Written for this edition, 2026.