WESTBURY, (Gloucestershire) bet. the forest of Dean on the W. and the Severn on the S. and E. is a p. reckoned 23 m. in com. That called Peacock's-brook, rising in Yartleton-Hill, runs through it into the Severn. The manor of Westbury, properly so called, was in the Bainhams family from the 20th of Henry VIII. to the 14th of Eliz. but now bel. to the crown, and the court-leet is kept by the sheriff. Here are 2 Chs. in the same Ch.-yard, viz. the Old and the New, but the latter is most used.