The Old Bell Hotel

 hotel, restaurant, church, pub / public house, interesting place

Built in 1220 and reputed to be the oldest purpose built hotel in England, The Old Bell Hotel is still offering warmth, comfort and hospitality nearly eight hundred years later. Standing alongside Malmesbury's medieval Abbey, in England's first capital, the hotel provides outstanding levels of service and retains the ambience of a bygone age.
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 ancestors 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