WESTERLEIGH, a parish in the hundred of
PUCKLE-CHURCH; county of GLOUCESTER, 3 miles
(S. W. by W.) from Chipping-Sodbury, containing 1817
mhabitants. . The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Puckle-Church, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester. The church, dedicated to
St. James, is a handsome structure in the later English
style, with a lofty tower and stone pulpit. Sir John
Smyth, in 1715, gave an annuity of £20 in support of
two schools, in which ten boys and ten girls are educated.
Edward Fowler, a divine and theological writer
of the seventeenth century, was born here.