Amesbury

Amesbury is a town in , . As the closest town to , it makes an excellent starting point for a visit to the ancient monument by car or on foot.
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  • Type: Town with 10,100 residents
  • Description: town in Wiltshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “아메스버리”, “아메스베리”, “에임스버리”, “에임스베리”, “에임즈베리”, “エームズベリー”, “エイムズブリー”, and “阿姆斯伯里”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stonehenge and Woodhenge.

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is a Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monument in a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain in , . The WHS is quite large and contains many other structures from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

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is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles northeast of , in parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.

Aerodrome
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MOD Boscombe Down is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. The airfield was built in 1930 as Royal Air Force Boscombe Down, and since 1939, has evaluated aircraft for use by the British Armed Forces.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Durrington and Bulford.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies about 2 miles north of the town of Amesbury, 10 miles north-northeast of the city of , and 2+1⁄2 miles northeast of the monument.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, near . The village is close to and about 1.5 miles north of the town of Amesbury.

Village
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is a garrison town in the civil parish of , Wiltshire, England. It lies about 1+3⁄4 miles west of the centre of Durrington village and 1+1⁄2 mi north of the prehistoric monument of . is situated 2½ miles northwest of Amesbury.

Amesbury

Latitude
51.1723° or 51° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
-1.7818° or 1° 46′ 54″ west
Population
10,100
Elevation
266 feet (81 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AMS
Open location code
9C3W56C9+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21496954
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657355
Wiki­data ID
Q470299
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Amesbury” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Amesbury”
  • Basque: “Amesbury”
  • Belarusian: “Эймсберы”
  • Bengali: “এমেসবুরি”
  • Catalan: “Amesbury”
  • Cebuano: “Amesbury (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Amesbury”
  • Chinese: “埃姆斯伯里”
  • Chinese: “阿馬斯布利”
  • Chinese: “阿马斯布利”
  • Czech: “Amesbury”
  • Dutch: “Amesbury”
  • Esperanto: “Amesbury”
  • Finnish: “Amesbury”
  • French: “Amesbury”
  • Galician: “Amesbury”
  • German: “Amesbury”
  • Gujarati: “એમેસબરી”
  • Indonesian: “Amesbury”
  • Irish: “Amesbury”
  • Italian: “Amesbury”
  • Japanese: “エイムズベリー”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಸ್ಬರಿ”
  • Korean: “에임즈버리”
  • Ladin: “Amesbury”
  • Latin: “Amesbury”
  • Lithuanian: “Emesberis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amesbury (Wiltshire)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amesbury”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amesbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amesbury”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amesbury”
  • Norwegian: “Amesbury”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amesbury”
  • Persian: “آمسبوری”
  • Persian: “ایمزبری”
  • Polish: “Amesbury”
  • Portuguese: “Amesbury”
  • Romanian: “Amesbury”
  • Russian: “Эймсбери”
  • Slovak: “Amesbury”
  • Slovenian: “Amsebury”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمسبوری”
  • Spanish: “Amesbury”
  • Swedish: “Amesbury”
  • Tamil: “அமெஸ்புரி”
  • Telugu: “అమెస్బురి”
  • Turkish: “Amesbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Еймсбері”
  • Urdu: “ایمزبری”
  • Volapük: “Amesbury (Wiltshire)”
  • Volapük: “Amesbury”
  • Welsh: “Amesbury, Wiltshire”
  • Welsh: “Amesbury”
  • “Amesbury”

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