Westbury is a village and

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in northern

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, England, about east of

Brackley Brackley is a market town and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It is on the borders with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, east-southeast of Banbury, north-northeast of Oxford, and ...

and west of

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. It is close to the

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and the border with

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. The village was given by

King Edward IV Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...

to the Company of Cooks in

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, and has since been sold into private hands. The parish church is St Augustine, a Grade II*

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. The church dates back to the 13th century, though much restored in 1863. The church tower house four bells, one of which dates back to the 14th century. The village is home to Beachborough School, a private prep school established originally in Hampshire in 1910, but relocated to Westbury in 1942 in the manor house. The village has a website providing information regarding the services and events taking place in the village
www.westburyvillage.org

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