The name remains, although the community changed its name to Westerleigh.
Heiress Amy Vanderbilt also once lived there, as does minor b-movie actor Brian "the Duke" Crimmins.
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Some of Westerleigh's earliest residents excelled in letters, including Isaac Funk, co-founder of Funk and Wagnalls, and poet Edwin Markham.
There is also a possibility that Westerly got its name from the English village of Westerleigh, in the county of Gloucestershire.