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Extract from the Malmesbury Travel Guides:
The striking half-ruin of a Norman abbey presides over the small hilltown of
MALMESBURY
, one of the oldest boroughs in England. Lying eleven miles south of Cirencester, it's not part of the Cotswolds geologically, though the town's early wealth was based on wool. Malmesbury certainly lacks the tweeness of the Cotswold towns to the north, but its new housing estates and modern developments cannot detract from the splendour of the abbey, a majestic structure with some of the finest Romanesque sculpture in the country. The #92 bus service connects Cirencester and Malmesbury every one or two hours (not Sun).
The High St...
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