Origin of Amesbury

In my Regency romance series, “The Rogue Hearts,” I created a family with the surname Amesbury. I first heard the name when a neighbor got engaged to a young man whose last name was Amesbury. The moment I heard Amesbury, something perked up inside me. My neighbor said dreamily, “Doesn’t that sound like the name of an English lord?” I wholeheartedly agreed. Years later, when I wrote my first Regency romance novel, The Stranger She…