64-571: The Meadowbrook Polo Club (originally styled as the "Meadow Brook Club"), located in Old Westbury, New York , is the oldest continuously operating polo club in the United States, first established in 1881. The Meadow Brook Club was established in 1881, and for the first several years matches were played on the racetrack at the Mineola Fairgrounds, before opening its own facility, including
128-594: A Non-League football club, Westbury United , who play at the Meadow Lane ground in the Southern League (English football's eighth tier). The non-league Rugby Football Club, Westbury RFC, has both male and female teams who play at the White Horse Country Park, a 247 acre estate that includes a 9 hole Golf Course, Driving Range, Bowels Club and Fishing Lakes. The Park also hosts shows and events throughout
192-412: A junior school and an infants school . The secondary school, Matravers School , has a sixth form offering a range of subjects. It serves Westbury and the surrounding villages including Chapmanslade, Bratton, Dilton Marsh and Edington. Westbury Leigh C of E Primary School was moved from Westbury Leigh to the neighbouring Leigh Park estate. Bitham Brook Primary School mainly serves the western part of
256-565: A distribution centre, owned since 2013 by Tarmac . From 1961 until its demolition in 2016, the plant's 400 feet (120 m) chimney was the tallest unsupported structure in southwestern England. Businesses at the Brook Lane industrial area, north-west of the railway station, include an Arla creamery which makes Anchor butter. The West Wilts trading estate, in Heywood parish just north-west of Westbury, has Welton Bibby & Baron who claim to be
320-745: A field and clubhouse, in 1884. Originally located in the town of Westbury, New York , the new venue was home to the United States National Open from 1923 to 1953. In 1928 the fields hosted the Cup of the Americas match between the United States and Argentina , which attracted more than 100,000 spectators over three days. In 1932, the club became the only non-Argentine club to win the Argentine Open Polo Championship . World War II caused
384-403: A household in the village was $ 163,046, and the median income in the village was $ 184,298 for a family. The median earnings of the 899 households (89.6% of total households) in the village that took in earnings supplemental to income was $ 230,721. Males had a median income of $ 100,000+ versus $ 45,200 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 72,932. About 1.1% of families and 3.5% of
448-422: A local post office ca. 1841, and when they incorporated Old Westbury as a village, they felt that it would be confusing for the village name and post office name to be different from one another. The Village of Westbury, located adjacent to Old Westbury, adopted that designation when it incorporated in 1932 as Cayuga County's Westbury's name was no longer being used. The area was originally known as Wallage, which
512-596: A major reduction in activity, and in 1954 the club was razed for the construction of the Meadowbrook Parkway . The club was located for a brief time in Jericho, New York , before again being sold for development in 1968. In 1961 the name was contracted from "Meadow Brook" to "Meadowbrook". The club moved to a new location in Old Westbury and again hosted the United States Open in 1994 and 1995. Club pro and Manager
576-573: A modest house for himself, 'Bagatelle', in 1908. A. Conger Goodyear , then president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City had a house built in 1938 by famed architect Edward Durell Stone , who also destined the building for Conger's museum. In 2003, the A. Conger Goodyear House was added to the National Register of Historic Places to protect the structure from being demolished to subdivide
640-408: A short time the largest in the country. Chalk came from a quarry around 2 km away, and clay was dug from pits near the plant. From 1977 to 1992 part of the plant's fuel came from domestic refuse, and from 2000 tyres were burned. French company Lafarge took over Blue Circle in 2001, and cement production ended in 2009. Most of the site was demolished in 2016 but the cement silos remain in use as
704-552: A transitional style between the Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic and parts survive, but the church was rebuilt in the 1430s, when a clerestory , three chapels, and most of the central tower were added; the north chapel was given by William de Westbury and his father. The west window was donated in the 19th century by Abraham Laverton . The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was completed from near Chippenham, via Melksham and Trowbridge, as far as Westbury in 1848. That company
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#1733084546572768-410: Is 18 miles to the northwest. All Saints' Church , now a Grade I listed building, has 14th-century origins but was altered and extended around 1437, then restored in 1847. Although it has a central position near the market-place, surrounding buildings hide it from view except for the central tower. St Mary's Church, Old Dilton was begun in the 14th century but went out of regular use in 1900 after
832-590: Is Juan Redlich. 40°48′38″N 73°35′52″W / 40.8105798°N 73.5978714°W / 40.8105798; -73.5978714 Old Westbury, New York Old Westbury is a village in the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in Nassau County , on the North Shore of Long Island , in New York , United States. The population was 4,671 at the 2010 census. The Incorporated Village of Old Westbury
896-563: Is a civil parish with an elected town council of fifteen members: five for each of three wards with the same boundaries as the electoral divisions. The council has significant consultative roles, in addition to responsibility for certain local services. The chairman has the title of Mayor of Westbury which is a wholly ceremonial role. Around 2020, the council took over the running of the town's play areas, toilets and flower planting from Wiltshire Council, and supplemented reduced services from Wiltshire Council with its own staff. The council also runs
960-609: Is an early 18th century house in red brick with stone dressings; its five-bay front, with a carved stone shell hood over the central door, is passed by traffic on the A350. Leigh House at Westbury Leigh, perhaps of slightly earlier date, is a similar structure. In a central position on the Market Place, the early 19th century former town hall is in Bath stone ashlar and has a colonnaded front at street level, behind which shops were inserted in
1024-543: Is one of the wealthiest villages in the country as well as the second-richest zip code in the New York State, topped only by Harrison in Westchester County . In 2007, Business Week dubbed Old Westbury as New York's most expensive suburb. Old Westbury Gardens has been recognized as one of the three best public gardens in the world by Four Seasons Hotels magazine. Westbury was founded by Edmond Titus, and
1088-563: Is related to a Native American term roughly meaning "ditch" or "hole." By February 1663, it was known as Wood Edge, and by October 1675 it was known as "the Plains edge" or simply Plainedge. The name Westbury began to be used for the area around 1683. The name Westbury was chosen by Henry Willis, who named it after Westbury, Wiltshire , his hometown in England. Westbury House was the residence of Henry Phipps' eldest son, John Shaffer Phipps . Today,
1152-534: Is served by a fortnightly free newspaper, the White Horse News , named after the defining feature on the edge of the town. The newspaper is delivered to all homes in the town and the nearby villages of Bratton , Dilton Marsh and Edington , amongst others. Westbury is also served by the weekly Warminster Journal and Wiltshire Times . Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC West and ITV West Country . Television signals are received from
1216-488: The River Biss as it flows north towards Trowbridge, forms most of the western boundary of the parish. Suburbs of Westbury include Frogmore, Bitham Park, and The Ham (north and east), Chalford, Leigh Park, and Westbury Leigh (southwest). Westbury Leigh is sometimes considered a separate village, with its own church and chapel, although it is now a contiguous part of the town. Leigh Park is a large housing estate developed from
1280-457: The Wessex Main Line , linking Bristol and Bath Spa to Salisbury , Southampton , Portsmouth and London Waterloo . Westbury railway station is northwest of the town centre. A smaller station, Dilton Marsh , is to the southwest of the town centre between the suburbs of Dilton Marsh and Westbury Leigh; this is a request stop . Westbury has one secondary school , two primary schools ,
1344-485: The Westbury White Horse . The majority of local government functions (including schools, roads, social services, waste disposal, emergency planning, leisure services, development control, refuse collection and street cleaning) are carried out by Wiltshire Council , a unitary authority . The area of Westbury parish is divided into three electoral divisions, each electing one member of Wiltshire Council. Westbury
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#17330845465721408-461: The 18th century, its present form dates from 1778 when it was restored. In the 1950s it was decided that the horse would be more easily maintained if it were set in concrete and painted white. The A350 road passes through the town and provides a fast route to the M4 motorway (junction 17) 21 miles to the north. A controversial Westbury Bypass was once proposed which would have reduced traffic in parts of
1472-547: The 1970s. The first floor windows have balustraded aprons below, and above them the triangular pediment has the Lopes arms in the tympanum . Edgar House, off Edward Street south of the town centre, is a four-bay early 18th century remodelling of an older house, faced in stucco . The Grade II* monument is the Phipps mausoleum in the cemetery, on the Bratton road on the eastern edge of
1536-571: The Angel and Bitham mills continued to make fine woollen cloth, having been acquired in the 1850s by Abraham Laverton; both mills closed in 1969. There were also tanning and glove-making businesses, some of them taking over the disused cloth mills for a time in the 20th century. Malting was another important industry from at least the 17th century. In the 1830s there were six firms active in Westbury and Westbury Leigh, but by 1960 only one remained. Iron ore
1600-468: The Avon valley, Westbury was a centre of the cloth industry from the later 15th century. By the start of the 19th century, Dilton Marsh was a centre of hand-loom weaving. The Phipps family were prominent among the clothiers, becoming the largest landowners by the end of the 19th century and occupying Leighton House (Westbury) and Chalcot House (Dilton Marsh). During that century the industry declined, until only
1664-524: The Grade I listed All Saints' Church , the town has five Grade II* listed houses and one monument. Oldest among them is Ferndale House, now the Conservative Club, just east of the Market Place, which although altered dates from the early 18th century. In rendered brick, its front has two Palladian windows on each of the ground and first floor, all with small side lights. North of the Market Place, Bank House
1728-529: The Grade II listed Laverton Institute which serves as the town hall and as a venue for events and meetings. The parliamentary constituency of Westbury dated back to the 15th century but the name was abandoned in 2010, when the town and most of the former constituency became part of the new South West Wiltshire constituency. The seat has been held by Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives since 2001. Before
1792-626: The Penknap building continues in use as Providence Baptist Church. Later, there was a Baptist congregation in Westbury itself, and in 1868 they rebuilt their West End chapel to seat 350, on the site of a smaller 1820s chapel. A Methodist church and schoolroom was built in 1926 at the town end of Station Road, replacing a smaller chapel elsewhere dating from around 1809. It is used as a meeting place and events venue by local organisations. The Catholic Church of St Bernadette of Lourdes in West End, Westbury
1856-458: The UK's largest manufacturer of paper bags and similar goods. Pevsner states that the best houses in Westbury are near the church. His perambulation takes in the Market Place and the streets leading off it, then proceeds south and west. He notes the 1960s central shopping parade – two yellow brick ranges facing each other – and the former Barclays Bank, 1970, purple brick in brutalist style. Besides
1920-567: The Westbury Union Free School District's high school, Westbury High School – along with the East Williston Union Free School District's secondary school, The Wheatley School – are located within the village. According to Bloomberg/Businessweek , as of 2011, Old Westbury is the second "richest" town in the United States, trailing behind only Palm Beach, Florida . The magazine previously dubbed
1984-566: The bounds of which have been much the same since the Anglo-Saxon period . The -bury part of the name is a form of borough , which has cognates in many languages, such as the German -burg and the Greek -pyrgos . It carries the idea of a hill or fortified town. In Wiltshire, -bury often indicates an Iron Age or Bronze Age fortified hill fort , and such a site is to be found immediately above
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2048-480: The expensive land surrounding it. The estate of Robert Winthrop, an investment banker and member of the Dudley–Winthrop family, for whom Winthrop-University Hospital was named, has been similarly preserved. Part of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's estate and her sculpture studio has been preserved and maintained by one of her grandchildren, Pamela Tower LeBoutillier . During World War II , a 187-foot-high tower at
2112-486: The fragmentation into manors, and traces their ownership. The ancient parish included Bratton , Dilton, Dilton Marsh , Heywood and part of Chapmanslade . Churches at Bratton and Dilton were dependent chapels of Westbury church. Westbury centres on its historic marketplace – although markets ceased to be held in the middle of the 19th century – and the All Saints' Church . This was built between c. 1340 and 1380 in
2176-568: The late 1990s immediately to the north of Westbury Leigh, with a large medical centre, a community hall, and a district centre with a Tesco Express . Until the 1940s, the Westbury Hill Fair was an important annual event, mostly for the sale of sheep. The company which became known as Blue Circle built in 1962 a rail-served cement production plant a short distance north-east of the town, partly in Heywood parish; its two rotary kilns were for
2240-490: The nave was screened off and converted for use as a community hall. Nonconformists met in the town from 1662, and built a chapel on Warminster Road soon after 1711, which was rebuilt to suit a congregation of 500 in 1821. It became a United Reformed Church on the foundation of that organisation in 1972. There has been a strong Baptist movement at Westbury Leigh, encouraged by the congregations at Southwick , some 4 miles (6 km) away towards Trowbridge. An early chapel
2304-462: The north created Heywood parish in 1896. Westbury Urban District was formed in 1899, with the same boundaries as the parish. It was abolished in 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972 , its area becoming part of West Wiltshire district. The district was in turn abolished in 2009 on the establishment of Wiltshire Council as a unitary authority. Leighton House in the south of
2368-460: The northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain , about 4 miles (6 km) south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster . Westbury was known for the annual Hill Fair where many sheep were sold in the 18th and 19th centuries; later growth came from the town's position at the intersection of two railway lines. The busy A350 , which connects the M4 motorway with the south coast, passes through
2432-636: The northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain ; in the past, the name Westbury-under-the-Plain was sometimes used to distinguish it from other towns of the same name . The town is 18 miles (29 km) southeast of the city of Bath , approximately 4 miles (6 km) south of the county town of Trowbridge and the same distance north of the garrison town of Warminster . Nearby villages are Bratton , Chapmanslade , Dilton Marsh , Edington , Heywood and Hawkeridge , Coulston , and Upton Scudamore ; and in Somerset, Rudge and Standerwick . The Biss Brook, which becomes
2496-550: The parkway was completed, many residents found it to not be the eyesore they had been anticipating and regretted making their commutes more inconvenient than necessary. In the 1950s, the state purchased land from Charles E. Wilson , a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower 's cabinet. The land, which runs along an edge of
2560-472: The parliamentary reforms of the mid-19th century, Westbury was considered a pocket borough , at one point having as few as twenty-four electors. This status led to gifts to the town from the owners of the parliamentary borough, including the Old Town Hall in the Market Place, donated by Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes . Westbury is in the far west of Wiltshire, close to the border with Somerset . It lies under
2624-433: The pits dug for the cement works north-east of the town, notably the almost complete skull and 2-metre (6 ft) lower jaw of a new species which was named Pliosaurus carpenteri after its 1994 discoverer, Simon Carpenter. This evidence of a large reptile-like ocean predator has been conserved by Bristol Museum . A smaller fossil found in 1980 was named Pliosaurus westburyensis in 1993. In common with nearby towns in
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2688-615: The population dwindled in that area, southwest of Westbury. The Grade I listed building, which remains consecrated, has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1974. The Church of the Holy Saviour at Westbury Leigh was built as a chapel of ease in 1877, the south aisle added in 1889 and the tower in 1890; all in honey coloured limestone, to designs of the Gothic Revival architect William White . In 2000
2752-746: The population were below the poverty line , including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over. Residents are zoned to schools in one of four school districts, depending on where in the village they reside. They are the East Williston Union Free School District , the Jericho Union Free School District , the Roslyn Union Free School District , and the Westbury Union Free School District . Additionally,
2816-560: The present-day Old Westbury Golf & Country Club, aided the military during World War II as a lookout to spot enemy aircraft. Originally built as the water tower for the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Residence, it now serves as the club's focal point. When Robert Moses was planning the Northern State Parkway, the powers of Old Westbury forced him to re-site it five miles (8 km) to the south. Once
2880-570: The property is operated as Old Westbury Gardens . Robert Low Bacon built 'Old Acres' in the style of an Italian villa. Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt , founder of New York's Whitney Museum , at Apple Green (formerly a Mott house), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney , whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology. The architect Thomas Hastings built
2944-460: The staff of homeowners. The village is famous for being the seat of many of New York's (and America's) wealthiest families, including the Phippses , Vanderbilts , Whitneys , Webbs, Du Ponts , Winthrops, Mortimers, Belmonts and Huttons. While many of these older families—the founding members of the social elite and those that emerged during the gilded age—still count members as Old Westbury residents,
3008-523: The town "New York's wealthiest suburb." Based on a study done by Bloomberg in 2015, the average household income in the village is greater than $ 640,000. In 2011, Forbes , having done a study of "America's Millionaire Capitals", found that the average net worth of Old Westbury households was $ 19.6 million and with an average annual income of $ 1.2 million. The controlled study included only households with incomes greater than $ 200,000, which excluded only residents that are living in college dormitories and
3072-450: The town but would have had a negative effect on the landscape on the east of the town. The eastern bypass scheme was eventually rejected after an Independent Planning Inquiry recommended against it in 2009. The town is an important junction point on the railway network, as it lies at the point where the Reading to Taunton line , forming a link from London Paddington to Penzance , intersects
3136-796: The town has been home to the Army Officer Selection Board and the Cadet Force Commissioning Board since 1949. Its planned disposal was announced in March 2016, and later that year the MoD estimated that the Selection Board would move to Sandhurst by 2024. A band of Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay runs under England from an outcrop on the Dorset coast and comes close to the surface around Westbury. Many marine fossils have been found in
3200-418: The town. Dating from around 1871 (for the burial of John Lewis Phipps ), the stone monument has a basement, an octagonal chamber with four windows, and a short spire with lantern . A well-known feature of the area is the Westbury White Horse , which overlooks the town from a slope up to Salisbury Plain, in Bratton parish about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) east of the town. Probably first made in
3264-458: The town. The urban area has expanded to include the village of Westbury Leigh and the hamlets of Chalford and Frogmore . A Romano-British settlement was found at The Ham, in the north of the parish, in the 1870s. The manor of Westbury, and the hundred with the same boundaries, was held by the king at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086. The Wiltshire Victoria County History recounts
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#17330845465723328-503: The town. Westbury C of E Junior School serves the central part of the town and takes children from Year 3 to Year 6. It is fed by Westbury Infant School, which takes children from Reception to Year 2. The closest further education establishment is Wiltshire College 's Trowbridge campus, 4½ miles to the north. The college offers daytime adult education lessons at the Westbury Community Project building. The University of Bath
3392-465: The village has also maintained a substantial set of industrialists, businessmen, collectors, athletes and entertainers. The Old Westbury Fund is a hedge fund that is named after the town. When Forbes asked billionaire investor Steven Schonfeld what the "wisest investment" he ever made was, his answer was "Old Westbury land". Westbury, Wiltshire Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire , England. The town lies below
3456-541: The village was 73.19% White , 4.24% African American , 0.02% Native American , 7.52% Asian , 3.67% from other races , and 2.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.14% of the population. There were 1,063 households, out of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 82.2% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.0% were non-families. Of all households 5.6% were made up of individuals, and 2.9% had someone living alone who
3520-617: The village, was used for the Long Island Expressway . According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 8.57 square miles (22.2 km ), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,228 people, 1,063 households, and 967 families residing in the village. The population density was 493.9 inhabitants per square mile (190.7/km ). There were 1,109 housing units at an average density of 129.5 per square mile (50.0/km ). The racial makeup of
3584-823: The year including the Donkey Derby, Vintage & Classic Car Shows and Christmas Concert. A cricket field at Wellhead Lane was laid out by the mill-owning Lavertons and came to be known as W. H. Laverton's Ground . In 1890 W. G. Grace played in W. H. Laverton's XI against a team called the Australians. Today the ground is home to Westbury & District Cricket Club, and to one side is the Leighton Recreation Centre, run by Places Leisure (part of Places for People ) on behalf of Wiltshire Council . providing access to Health and Fitness Suites, Grass Pitches, Squash Courts, Tennis Courts and Grass Cricket Pitches. Westbury
3648-462: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.33 and the average family size was 3.37. In the village, the age distribution of the population shows 22.7% under the age of 18, 20.2% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.6 males. The median income for
3712-487: Was a faster route from London to Weymouth, which at Westbury crossed the route between the south coast and Bristol or South Wales. From 1906 the route from London was also used by trains to Taunton and Exeter. In 1894, Westbury parish was reduced in size when a new civil parish of Dilton Marsh was created from its western part (all the land west of the Biss ), and likewise Bratton parish from its eastern part. A further reduction in
3776-567: Was bought by the Great Western Railway in 1850, who over the next few years built lines onwards to Frome (to access the Somerset coalfield ), then south to Yeovil and Weymouth, as well as southeast from Westbury to Warminster and then Salisbury. Westbury station was rebuilt in 1899 since it would become more important as a junction the next year, on the opening of the Stert and Westbury line . This
3840-482: Was built in 1938. It is now served from St John the Baptist, Trowbridge . Westbury Swimming Pool is one of the oldest Victorian swimming pools still in use in the country. Work started in 1887 by William Laverton, with his wife laying the foundation stone. The pool was built as a gift to the town of Westbury and opened on Thursday 24th May 1888 in celebration and commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Westbury has
3904-468: Was discovered just north of the town in the 1840s during construction of the railway; opencast mines were developed and furnaces built. Production declined toward the end of the century and had ceased by 1925. A chain of lakes and ponds near The Ham is evidence of the abandoned workings. The most likely origin of the West- in Westbury is simply that the town is near the western edge of the county of Wiltshire,
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#17330845465723968-627: Was incorporated in 1924, separating itself from Westbury , the adjacent area that housed many of the families of the construction and building staffs for the Old Westbury mansions. The "Old" part of Old Westbury's name reflects the community's need for its postal address to be different from the Westbury in Cayuga County , as per postal requirements (it had been using a postal address of North Hempstead for this reason); residents did this when they wanted
4032-631: Was later joined by Henry Willis, one of the first English settlers. Westbury had been a Quaker community of isolated farms until the railroad came in 1836. After the Civil War, the New York elite discovered that the rich, well-wooded flat countryside of the Hempstead Plains was a place to raise horses, and to hunt foxes and play polo at the Meadow Brook Polo Club . The Village of Old Westbury
4096-428: Was made from a barn in 1714, and replaced on the same site in 1797 by a chapel with accommodation for 500, built in red brick with stone trimmings. Improved and enlarged in the next century, it is described by Historic England as an "impressive building". In 1810 another chapel was built nearby, at Penknap in Dilton Marsh parish, after a split in the congregation. The earlier chapel fell into disuse sometime before 2019;
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