Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Westbury. You may be able to find further references to Westbury in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
WESTBURY	a town, a parish, a hundred, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Westbury (or Western) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Westbury.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BRATTON	a chapelry	Imperial
Dilton	hamlet	Bartholomew
DILTON-MARSH	a chapelry	Imperial
Fairwood	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hawkeridge	village	Bartholomew
HEYWOOD	a chapelry	Imperial
Leigh	hamlet	Bartholomew
LEIGH	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Westbury within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	Aug. 31st Aug to Sept. 4th, 1826: Salisbury to Highworth	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire	2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Westbury Leigh	0	3
Dilton	0	2
Heywood	0	2
Upton Scudamore	0	2
Bratton	3	2
Dilton Marsh	0	2
North Bradley	0	4
Warminster	26	3
West Ashton	0	3
Whorwellsdown	0	2
Standerwick	0	2
Edington	4	2
Chapmanslade	0	2
Bishopstrow	1	2
Southwick	1	2
Boreham	0	2
Beckington	0	2
Steeple Ashton	0	2
Norton Bavant	1	2
Corsley	0	2