Location

Westbury is placed occasionally Twelve miles in the south east of the city of Bath and about quaternion miles south of Trowbridge. These are an crucial junction point on a railway network, when it lies at a point in which the main line railway from either London to the Exeter and the West Country intersects the cross united states line from either South Wales, Bristol, Bath and Chippenham to Salisbury, Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton.

Position:

Nearby towns & cities: Bath, Bristol, Frome, Salisbury, Swindon, Trowbridge, Warminster

Nearby villages: Bratton, Chapmanslade, Dilton Marsh, North Bradley, Rudge, Standerwick, Upton Scudamore

Features and History

Westbury is every now and again referred to as Westbury-under-a-Plain to distinguish it from either more towns of the equivalent title. Westbury nestles under a n-american bluffs of Salisbury Plain, and these are there that a town's best known feature may be seen: a Westbury White Horse. These are believed that a Whitecap was originally turn over a chalk face to commemorate a triumph of King Alfred the Great over the Danes in the Battle of Eðandun (nearby Edington) in 878. Its original form was probably quite different from either a horse seen in todays world. A form of the todays Whitecap dates from either 1778, when it was restored. These are currently the elegant, grazing horse facing to the left: these are believed that it was, originally, charging to the correct.

Westbury is centred about a Market Place, sustaining a god's acre of Tons Saints' Church (fourteenth century) behind it.

Local Government

Westbury occurs as civil parish by having an elective town council. It lessens in a areas of West Wiltshire District Council and Wiltshire County Council. Totally triplet councils come responsible different aspects of local government.

Westbury lessens inside a Westbury parliamentary constituency.