Dedicated to St James the Great, patron Saint of Pilgrims. His famous shrine in Santiago de Compostela continues to attract countless pilgrims today, many of who follow trails from all parts of Europe before joining the northern Spanish Routes.The church at Westerleigh is a Grade I listed property. There are fifteen Grade 2-listed chest tombs in the graveyard.
Westerleigh is a village nestling just outside Bristol and at the southern fringes of the Cotswolds. It has its origins in Saxon times, having been mentioned in a document dating from 887. In 946, the village was given to the Monks of Glastonbury to pray for the soul of King Edmund who was killed at Pucklechurch. At this time it was probably just a clearing in the woods with possibly a wooden church built on the site of the present one, and yet it warranted an entry in the Doomsday book of 1086.
The present church with its noble west tower is well known to regular rail travelers on the Bristol to Birmingham and Cardiff to London lines where it can be seen clearly from the high embankments which carry the lines through this small village.
The northern wall and porch of the church is from the 13th century, as is the pulpit which is richly carved and one of the few stone pulpits left in England. The oldest part of the church is however the north wall of the nave, where a C13 lancet window remains to the east of the porch which shelters a pretty Early English period doorway. The door itself is thought to be of the same period.
The cache is not within the churchyard. It is a magnetic nano, due to the park keeper clearing the sides of the wall where it once sat. There is a footpath to the side of the church, next to the pub. This leads to the park.
Please use stealth when retrieving and rehiding the cache. 
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