Westbury buildings [44]

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Westbury buildings [44]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

Numbers 28 and 30 West End are 17th or early 18th century with later alterations. Built of brick, now rendered, with a pantile roof. Number 28 is the former Wheatsheaf public house, number 30 was a butchers shop. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1364372 West End suffers from being part of the busy A350 which runs through the town with a constant stream of heavy goods vehicles. 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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