Westbury
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Places
Australia- Westbury, TasmaniaWestbury, TasmaniaWestbury is a town in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 30 km west of Launceston on the Bass Highway, and at the 2006 census had a population of 1,357. It is part of, and the headquarters of, the Meander Valley Council area....
Canada
- Westbury, QuebecWestbury, QuebecWestbury is a township in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It surrounds the city of East Angus.The township had a population of 932 in the Canada 2006 Census....
Ireland
- Westbury, suburb of LimerickLimerickLimerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
United Kingdom
- Westbury, BuckinghamshireWestbury, BuckinghamshireWestbury is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England, about east of Brackley and west of Buckingham. It is close to the A422 and the border with Oxfordshire....
- Westbury, ShropshireWestbury, ShropshireWestbury is a village and parish in Shropshire, England. It lies 8 miles west of the town of Shrewsbury, very close to the Wales-England border.During the Roman settlement of Britain it was an outpost of Wroxeter....
- Westbury, WiltshireWestbury, WiltshireWestbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, most famous for the Westbury White Horse.-Name:The most likely origin of the West- in Westbury is simply that the town is near the western edge of the county of Wiltshire, the bounds of which have been much the same...
- Westbury-on-SevernWestbury-on-SevernWestbury-on-Severn is a rural village in England that is the centre of the large, rural parish, also called Westbury-on-Severn.-Location:The village is situated on the A48 road and bounded by the River Severn to the south and west.The village has a large parish church which is distinctive as the...
, Gloucestershire - Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
- Westbury-sub-MendipWestbury-sub-MendipWestbury-sub-Mendip is a village in Somerset, England, with a population of about 800, situated on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills from Wells and Cheddar.The parish boundary is formed by the River Axe-History:...
, Somerset - Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)Westbury (UK Parliament constituency)Westbury was a parliamentary constituency in Wiltshire from 1449 to 2010. It was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, and then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801...
United States
- Westbury, Houston, Texas
- Westbury, New YorkWestbury, New YorkWestbury incorporated in 1932 as a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 15,146 at the 2010 census.The Village of Westbury is in the Town of North Hempstead....
People
- Edgar T. WestburyEdgar T. WestburyEdgar T. Westbury was perhaps best known as a major contributor to the English recreational magazine Model Engineer. He contributed under his own name, and also under the pseudonyms 'Artificer' and 'Kinemette'. Beginning in 1925 until his death in 1970, he made over 1474 authored contributions to...
(1896–1970), British model engineer - Izzy Westbury (born 1990), English cricketer
- John de WestburyJohn De WestburyJohn Westbury of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire , also called John de Westbury and John of Westbury, was a fifteenth century Member of Parliament for Wiltshire.-Family:FatherJohn de Westbury of Westbury.Siblings...
(died c. 1448/49), MP for Wiltshire in 1417 and 1419 - June WestburyJune WestburyJune Westbury was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1979 to 1981, sitting as a Liberal....
(died 2004), Canadian politician born in New Zealand - Marcus WestburyMarcus WestburyMarcus Westbury is an Australian festival director. He is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where he filmed the TV series Not Quite Art...
(born 1974), Australian festival director - Marjorie WestburyMarjorie WestburyMarjorie Westbury was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted over fifty years.Born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, she studied Voice at the Royal College of Music in London between 1927 and 1930. During the 1930s she made many radio broadcasts as a soprano from the BBC studios at...
(1905–89), English actress and singer - Peter WestburyPeter WestburyPeter Westbury is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, scoring no championship points. In 1969 he raced a Formula 2 Brabham-Cosworth, driving in his first Grand Prix in the 1969 German Grand Prix. He finished ninth on the...
(born 1938), British racing driver - Richard Bethell, 1st Baron WestburyRichard Bethell, 1st Baron WestburyRichard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury PC, QC , was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1861 and 1865.-Background and education:...
(1800–73), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain - William de WestburyWilliam de WestburyWilliam Westbury , also called William de Westbury and William of Westbury, was a fifteenth century judge of the King's Bench.-Career:...
(c. 1385 – 1448), English judge, Justice of the King's Bench
Other
- Westbury High School (disambiguation), multiple schools
- Westbury (housebuilder)Westbury (housebuilder)Westbury plc was a British housebuilding company based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index but was acquired by Persimmon plc in 2005.-History:...
a British housebuilding company - Westbury, model of guitar made by UnivoxUnivoxFor Univox portable keyboards, see Vox In the early 1960s the Unicord Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic transformers purchased the Amplifier Corporation of America of Westbury, New York. They began marketing a line of amplifiers under the name of Univox. The company was purchased by Gulf +...