# Westbury

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #47,418

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6235).
2. A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3509).
3. A town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST868511).
4. A suburb of Limerick, within County Clare, Ireland.
5. A township municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada.
6. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
7. A village in the town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States.
8. A hamlet in the towns of Victory, Cayuga County and Butler, Wayne County, New York.
9. A neighbourhood in south-west Houston, Texas, United States.
10. A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
11. A town in Meander Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
12. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
13. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From Old English west (“west”) + byriġ, the dative case of burh (“fortified place”), alternatively west + -bury.

## Common misspellings (13)
`ewstbury`, `wesbtury`, `wesstbury`, `westbbury`, `westbruy`, `westburry`, `westburyy`, `westbuyr`, `westtbury`, `westubry`, `wetsbury`, `wsetbury`, `wwestbury`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/westbury