Westbury, Shropshire

Description
Westbury, a village and a parish in Salop. The village is 9 miles W by S of Shrewsbury. It has a station about 1 mile distant on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool (Joint L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and a post and money order office under Shrewsbury; telegraph office at the railway station. The parish includes the townships of Cause, Haw-cocks, Hurst, Lake, Marsh, Newtown, Stoney Stretton, Vennington, Wallop, Westley, Whitton, Upper and Lower Wigmore, Winsley, and Yockleton. Acreage, 8800; population of the civil parish, 1261; of the ecclesiastical, 915. Westbury and Yockleton have a parish council of eleven members. The township and ecclesiastical parish of Minsterley also forms part of the parish, and comprises 2773 acres; population, 798. Yockleton, Newtown, and Stoney Strettpn form an ecclesiastical parish. Population, 346. Wallop Hall, Whitton Hall, and Winsley Hall are the chief residences. Cause Castle was formerly the seat of the Corbett family, and is now in ruins. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £570 with residence. The church is ancient, but has been largely rebuilt. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Lower Wigmore.