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DAYLESFORD - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"DAYLESFORD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, 2½ miles E. of Stow-on-the-Wold. Tanner says, that Ethelbald, King of Mercia, gave this place, A.D. 718, to one Begia, that a monastery might be built. Duke AElfgar gave it to the monks of Evesham in the time of Edward the Confessor. It was exempted from the interdict in the reign of John. The parish is of small extent, but extremely fertile. The living is a rectory* [the asterisk denotes that there is a parsonage and glebe belonging to the living] in the diocese of Worcester, value £152, in the patronage of Mrs. Hastings.

The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is one of the oldest buildings in England; but the stones were readjusted in 1816 by Mr. Hastings, who took down the whole of the structure but two arches, and rebuilt it of the old materials. Warren Hastings was born at Daylesford House, one room in which is full of carved ivory furniture. It has been the property of the Hastings family for centuries. The cultivation of cinquefoil was introduced here in 1650, prior to its cultivation in any other part of the kingdom."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]