Monument record 0706800000 - WESTBURY VILLAGE

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).