Westbury
The village of Westbury is laid out in a 'D' shape which may reflect the course of a former fortification. At its centre, stands the church of St. Mary and like it's eqivalent in Chirbury it was th head of a large medieval parish. Records show evidence of two priests at the parish in 1086.
The village is sited on the line of the principal Roman Road from a fort near Montgomery to the town of Wroxeter, but the village also is sited on a junction where several other routes converge and as such the vllage would have strategically important. Possible evidence of this comes from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle in the year 1053 which shows many English frontier guards being killed by Welshmen in a place called Waestbyrig, possibly now known as Westbury.
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