Westbury buildings [37]
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Westbury buildings [37]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021
This late 18th century building is the former White Lion public house. The pub closed in 2010 and was converted into apartments. Constructed of brick, now stuccoed, with an old tile roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1181204 This image also shows the K6 telephone box (seen in detail at Image) in context. 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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