Westbury buildings [29]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

A sign on the Lopes Arms Hotel. The Lopes Arms Hotel, Market Place, closed in 2015. Reputed to be on the site of a 14th century inn, the present building is mostly 18th century with later additions and alterations. Constructed of red brick under an old tiled roof. Previously known as the Saint George & Dragon and as the Lord Abingdon Arms, it was renamed the Lopes Arms after a fire in 1809. It became The Westbury in 1989 and the name was changed back to the Lopes Arms in 2007. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1036309 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.

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