The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Malmesbury, Wiltshire*

Malmesbury, Wiltshire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Abbey. It's very old and falling down. Quite spooky at night
• The Abbey - once the second largest abbey in all of England until two thirds of it fell down - still an impressive building.
• Dyson's New Factory - Quality Architecture

Demolish It Now Building

• The Dyson factory! 580 jobs gone. Nuff said.
• I cant wait til they knock down Corn Gastons, we'll all be there with our pickaxes
• Almost all of the buildings are original cotswold stone - only Somerfield really stands out as horrible and that's hidden away from the centre.
• Corn Gastons School (Looks like a prison)

The Best Things

• Beer gardens
• The Kings Arms Hotel
• Walking round the river on three sides of the town. Malmesbury carnival - better than New Years Eve in most towns in the UK - packed all day, bar extensions, dancing in the Streets. The views from the sides of the town over the river and the hills. Walking up from the car park past the mill and the weir. The abbey museum up the tower.

The Worst Things

• The council's planning department
• Not many - a stack of people born here come back, it's one of the best places I've lived and I've been to the States, lived in London. Quite cosmopolitan - seems to attract Kiwis and Aussies.
• White Lion Park
• Car Parking for residents - "what's that?" ask the town council.

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Last updated: 2008-07-01