This quaint 19th century village offers a number of reasons to stop and explore.  The Culzean Gardens established in the 1840s, Pearns Steam World's collection of hundred-year-old agricultural machinery, the Westbury Maze, the National Trust's White House built in the 1840s, and antique shops.

The town has a population of 1,357, and was first surveyed by the Van Diemen's Land Company in 1828.  It was developed as a military garrison and the troops were barracked around what today is the Village Green. It is reputed to be one of the few traditional village greens in Australia.  

Westbury's first settlers were mostly Irish - many fleeing the Great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. By the mid-1800s Westbury had a population of around 3,000 people and the intent was expand it to become a major centre in the north. However, this did not happen and the nearby town of Deloraine became the area's administrative centre.

The town is named for Westbury, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom, and is 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Launceston on the B54 Highway not far from Deloraine.