A fact from The Old Bell, Malmesbury appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 December 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Neither is it the longest-running hotel in England, as a guest house of Malmesbury Abbey, not a "purpose-built hotel"; nor is any visible structure remotely dated "1220". This and the "ghosts" are sales brochure stuff. For a start let's have the quote from Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire: anyone? It stands in Abbey Row. Its proprietor in 1855 was G. Moore (Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire 1855, p. 181 ("Hotels, Inns, Taverns...")--Wetman (talk) 21:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
