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Westbury, Somerset

Historical Description

Westbury, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, under the Mendip Hills, with a station in the village at Lodge Hill on the G.W.R., and 4 miles NW of Wells. It has a post office under Wells; money order office, Draycott; telegraph office, Lodge Hill railway station. Acreage, 2997; population, 605; The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £245 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is chiefly Later English; was thoroughly restored and the tower rebuilt in 1887. There are Bible Christian and Wesleyan chapels and a temperance hall.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySomersetshire 
Ecclesiastical parishWestbury St. Lawrence 
HundredWells-Forum 
Poor Law unionWells 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Westbury from the following:


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

CountyWiltshire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBA13
Post TownWestbury

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