Westbury houses [8]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 9 Feb 2021

Japonica House, number 42 Westbury Leigh is early 19th century, built in red brick, with later alterations. The shop front that had been inserted in the 20th century has been removed. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036319 Westbury is a former market town in the far west of Wiltshire under the north western edge of Salisbury Plain, 4 miles south of Trowbridge and 4 miles north of Warminster. Westbury was a centre of the cloth industry from the later 15th century until the 19th century. Malting was another important industry. There are now a number of large industrial and trading estates around the town with many residents working there. The town is an important junction point on the railway network with the Reading to Taunton line intersecting the line from Bristol to Southampton. Westbury Leigh is sometimes considered a separate village, with its own church and chapel, although it is now a contiguous part of the town.

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