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The Eagle in Clerkenwell, London; the first pub to which the term gastropub was applied. A gastropub or gastro pub is a pub that serves food of high quality, [1] with a nearly equal emphasis on eating and drinking. [2] The term was coined in the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
Oaksey has a pub, the Wheatsheaf Inn. [9] A corrugated iron village hall was built in Oaksey in the 1920s [ 10 ] and a replacement was opened in 2000 by Prince Charles . [ 11 ] Oaksey has primary school, a shop and Post Office, a cricket club, a football club which plays in the Cirencester and District League and a branch of the Women's Institute .
After the Dissolution of the Abbey, the inn became part of a property portfolio known as Malmesbury Manor. The Lord of the Manor of Malmesbury owned the inn. The Danvers family bought the Manor, including the inn, in 1631. From 1644 the owner was Sir John Danvers. He was an MP for Malmesbury and a keen supporter of Oliver Cromwell.
Malmesbury municipal borough was created in 1886, and in 1894 the remainder of Malmesbury parish, including Rodbourne, was renamed St Paul Malmesbury Without. [ 2 ] A Church of England school was built in 1851 and later extended, to serve both Rodbourne and Corston; average attendance in 1885/6 was 63.
Charlton is a village and civil parish in North Wiltshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Malmesbury and 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the village of Brinkworth. The parish includes the hamlet of Perry Green and the Charlton Park estate. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 425. [1]
Luckington is a village and civil parish in the southern Cotswolds, in north-west Wiltshire, England, about 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (10 km) west of Malmesbury. The village is on the B4040 road linking Malmesbury and Chipping Sodbury. The parish is on the county border with Gloucestershire and includes the village of Alderton and the hamlet of Brook End.
Sherston is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) west of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England.The parish is bounded to the north by the county boundary with Gloucestershire, and to the southeast by the Fosse Way, a Roman road.
The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Malmesbury Abbey held a large estate of 50 hides at Brokenborough. In the 11th and 12th centuries the abbey claimed it had held it since AD 956. [6] The Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist is 13th-century and has a four-bay north aisle. [7] The building was restored in 1883 and is Grade ...