Monument record 0706800000 - WESTBURY VILLAGE

Summary

Medieval to modern village of Westbury, recorded in Domesday Book.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Conservation Area: Westbury Conservation Area (DBC8079)

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Type and Period (3)

  • VILL (Recorded 1086, 11th Century - 1000 AD to 1099 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1999 AD)
  • VILLAGE (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

In Westbury Roger holds 2 1/2 hides from the Bishop [of Bayeux] as one manor. Land for 7 ploughs; in lordship 2. 8 villagers with 3 smallholders have 5 ploughs. 1 slave; meadow for 5 ploughs; woodland, 250 pigs. Value £3; when acquired 50s; before 1066, 60s. Young Alnoth, a thane of King Edward's, held this manor (B1).
NGR to centre of village.
Conservation Area designated on 19th July 1989. See summary (B2).
Westbury is first recorded in Domesday Book, there are later references in legal documents in about 1218, 1269 and 1302 (B3).
The small village, which is situated in the southwest of the parish, contains several 17th-century stone cottages with thatched roofs. Southwest of the manor-house is the parish church of St. Augustine standing on low ground and nearly hidden by surrounding trees. Near the church is the vicarage, a 17th-century stone house of two stories with modern brick additions. It was probably built in 1661, the date on a stone reset in the modern work, and retains on the north two original woodmullioned windows. Westbury has a village green on which stands a remarkably fine elm (B4).
'Westbury' is marked on OS maps from about 1814 onwards (B5).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. 4:29.
  • <2>SBC23762 Bibliographic reference: Aylesbury Vale District Council. 2008. Westbury Conservation Area Summary.
  • <3>SBC8280 Bibliographic reference: A Mawer & F M Stenton. 1925. PLACE-NAMES OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES SOCIETY VOL 2). Vol 2. p50.
  • <4>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. p263.
  • <5>SBC27303 Verbal communication: Julia Wise (BC). 2025. Information from historic OS mapping.

Location

Grid reference SP 62214 35808 (point)
Civil Parish WESTBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 11 2025 5:26PM

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