Sat 19 Sept
|Westbury Arts Centre
Westbury Manor – A quick 2,000-year tour
Westbury has been an occupied site since pre-history and has a history that pre-dates the Norman Conquest. Come on a tour through 2,000+ years!
Time & Location
19 Sept 2026, 11:00 – 12:30
Westbury Arts Centre, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes MK5 6AA
About the Event
Occupied since Roman times, and the site of a Saxon burial, Westbury enters the historical record
before the Norman Invasion when a Queen’s lover occupied the manor house here. Given to a Norman
Knight after the Conquest it was expanded into a moated manor with a major rebuild in 1670, featuring
a famous door most probably salvaged from the Spanish Armada.
Becoming a tenanted farm in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Westbury became a feature of the Hunting
landscape of Whaddon Chase. After a brief period as a private residence the New Town bought the
Tickets
General Admission
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