Amesbury is a town and
civil parish in
Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the
prehistoric monument of
Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the
Amesbury Archer—dubbed the King of Stonehenge in the press—in 2002. It has been confirmed by archaeologists that it is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United Kingdom, having been first settled around 8820 BC.