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Full record: Amesbury
| County | Wiltshire |
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| Transcript | Ames... |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | possibly a pers. name + OE burg, 'fort' |
| Translation | |
| Earlier editors | -/ames[bury] (OS 1935) |
| Early Maps | amisberi (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Ammersbury 1349 Pat, Awmesbury 1444 Pat; all earlier attestations have the first element in the form Amb- or Alm- |
