Westbury, Shropshire : Historical writing

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 parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
WESTBURY a township and a parish Imperial

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

Place Type of entry Source
Cause place Bartholomew
CAUSE a township Imperial
Forest hamlet Bartholomew
FOREST a township Imperial
Hazells hamlet Bartholomew
Horsebridge hamlet Bartholomew
LAKE a township Imperial
Marsh village Bartholomew
MARSH, or MARCH a township Imperial
Minsterley township and village with railway station Bartholomew
MINSTERLEY a village and a chapelry Imperial
NEWTON a township Imperial
STONY-STRETTON a township Imperial
VENNINGTON a township Imperial
WALLOP a township Imperial
Wallop Hall seat Bartholomew
WESTLEY a township Imperial
WHITTON a township Imperial
WIGMORE a township Imperial
WINSLEY a township Imperial
Yockleton ecclesiastical district and railway station Bartholomew
YOCKLETON a township Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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 Historical Gazetteer
Caus 0 2
Halfway House 0 2
Stoney Stretton 0 1
Wollaston 0 3
Worthen 0 2
Winnington 0 2
Minsterley 0 2
Yockleton 0 2
Alberbury 1 2
Cardeston 0 2
Middletown 0 2
Uppington 0 2
Pontesbury 1 2
Habberley 0 2
Bausley 0 2
Rhos Goch 0 2
Hope 0 2
Plealey 0 2
Ford 0 3
Cruckton 4 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Westbury. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
WESTBURY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.