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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 2, North
Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Westbury 218. WESTBURY. (O.S. 6 in. xii. N.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Augustine, stands at the S. end of the village, and is built of stone...
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Parishes : Westbury
A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4
Parishes Westbury WESTBURY Westberie (xi cent.); Westbir' (xii cent.). Westbury is a parish with a large detached portion, amounting ... and 20 woods and plantations, 1 Westbury...
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Westbury: Charities
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Charities CHARITIES. John Gibbs, of London, by his will dated 1772, left £500 to provide six poor men of Westbury annually ... first consideration, and after them Westbury burgage-holders...
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Westbury: Schools
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Schools SCHOOLS. 70 In 1835 there were said to be 18 schools within the ancient parish. In the town of Westbury there were an infants' school, and 5 daily schools: in Westbury Leigh there...
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Westbury: Roman catholicism
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Walter Clark of Westbury Hundred was presented as a popish recusant in 1676 and 1680 23 ... W.R.O. Q. Sess. R. Trin. 1676, 1680, Westbury Presentments...
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Westbury: Industry and trade
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Industry and trade INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Like the other towns in the basin of the Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the cloth ... as 1433 a Westbury clothier, William Gawen,...
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Westbury: Protestant nonconformity
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Protestant nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Westbury ... as their preacher. 29 Hunton, ejected from the living of Westbury in 1662, was licensed ... A barn and house belonging to...
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Westbury: Fairs and markets
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Fairs and markets FAIRS AND MARKETS. A weekly market ... Nov.) was granted to Walter Pavely, lord of the manor of Westbury ... the manor of Westbury with its appurtenant hamlets. 64 In...
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The Hundred of Westbury
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds
The Hundred of Westbury 1 THE HUNDRED OF WESTBURY WESTBURY hundred ... and Woolaston, and parts of Churcham and Westbury-on-Severn. The remainder ... having been in Longbridge...
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Westbury: Parliamentary representation
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8, Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds
Westbury Parliamentary representation PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. Westbury first sent representatives to Parliament in 1448, the last but one ... in most of the other Wiltshire boroughs. 96 At Westbury...
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