WESTBURY-upon-TRYM, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HENBURY, county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from Bristol, containing, with the chapelry of Shirehampton, and the tything of .Bishop's Stoke, 3721 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Bristol, endowed with £200 private benefactipn, and £200 royal bounty, and in the alternate patronage of the Rev. J. Bakerand S. Edwards, Esq. The. church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. , There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A monasr tery existed here early in the ninth century, which was refounded near the close of the eleventh; it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and made a cell to the priory of Worcester, but was dissolved in the reign of Henry I. About 1288, it became a college for a dean aud canons, in honour of the Holy Trinity: in 1443 it was rebuilt, and its possessions augmented by Dr. Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester, who styled himself Bishop of Worcester and Westbury, and was buried on the south side of the altar. Its revenue at the dissolution was estimated at £232. 14., and the house, which remained till the reign of Charles I., was burned by Prince Rupert, to prevent its falling into the. power of the parliament, but some traces of it are still visible in a mansion erected on its site.