Westerleigh

Westerleigh is a clustered village in the civil parish of Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath (which includes Henfield) in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, it contains sources of the Frome and has an endpoint of the Frome Valley Walkway.

The northern wall and porch of St James church is from the 13th century, as is the carved stone pulpit.

The church was rebuilt in the perpendicular style, with the tower (once used as the village lock up) added at a later date.

By 1876 occupations in the village included farmers, a bootmaker, shopkeepers, innkeepers, butchers, a plasterer, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a market gardener and a carrier.

Now residents find work in nearby Yate, Chipping Sodbury and Bristol, and in the village itself.

Demolished in the 1960s as part of the Beeching cuts, the site is now the home of one of Murco's oil storage terminals.

The church of Saint James the Great, Westerleigh