WESTBURY, a parish in the hundred of WELLSFORUM,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. W. by W.)
from Wells, containing 622 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of
Priddy annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean
of Wells, rated in the king's books at £11. 4. 9., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and
Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The
parish is bounded on the south-west by the river Ax,
which separates it from Wedmore.