Amesbury Village
Amesbury is a little Wiltshire town. It lies on the River Avon, eight miles north of Salisbury, at a point where the main road from London to Exeter bridges the river. The chalk downlands of Salisbury Plain surround the town, pocked with the remains of earlier civilizations like Neolific & Bronze Age people. Until the current century Amesbury relied largely on farming, but now its inhabitants of some 6000 people looks mostly to the neighboring defense establishments or to Salisbury for employment. The center of the town & its medieval abbey church stay, though the ' great access road' which once formed the High street has been channeled into a modern by-pass. The abbey mansion, the abbey was began in 979, is now a convalescence home, the 18th century buildings of the town centre are mixed with modern shops, & housing estates have crept onto the common fields. Amesbury may not amaze the...
