Marlborough

Marlborough, on the Kennet, 38 m. E. of Bristol, a Wiltshire market-town, with sack and rope making, brewing, and tanning industries; has an old Norman church, the remains of an old royal residence, and a college, chiefly for sons of clergymen, founded in 1845.

Population (circa 1900) given as 9,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)