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Westbury

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Westbury, town (parish), administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southwestern England. The town lies in the western part of the county, just south-southeast of Trowbridge. It was noted as “Westberie a royal manor” in Domesday Book (1086), the record of the land survey ordered by William I the Conqueror. The first mention of the town as a borough occurs in 1442–43, but its borough status was lost in 1886. The nearby Westbury White Horse—a figure,...

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