Westbury Workhouse -> Westbury Hall, Welfare home (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 13:39 (4685 days ago) @ jmay

The workhouse, which stands west of Westbury village street, comprises a long three-story brick range,apparently incorporating the original parish workhouse, and a larger brick range behind, evidently built in 1874, (fn. 58) in which a chapel is included. The buildings later housed a county council welfare home, called Westbury Hall, which was closed in 1969.

From: 'Westbury-on-Severn: Local government', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 97-98. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15768 Date accessed: 29 June 2011.

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