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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Westbury like this:
WESTBURY, a parish in the district of Brackley and county of Buckingham; 2½ miles ESE of Brackley r. station. Post town, Buckingham. Acres, 2,547. Real property, £2,800. Pop., 379. Houses, 84. Westbury manor is the seat of the Hon. P. Barrington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £106.* Patron, the Hon. P. Barrington. The church was restored in 1863. There are a national school, and charities £21.
Westbury is now part of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BUCKINGHAMSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Westbury itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Westbury in Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2169
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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