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DAYLESFORD, Worcestershire
"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, [in order] that a monastery might be built. Duke Ælfgar 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* in the diocese of Worcester, value £152, in the patronage of Mrs. Hastings."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Daylesford from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Historical Geography
- "Rectory, Oxford Diocese. Transferred [to Gloucestershire] from Worcestershire. 1931.
In civil parish of Adlestrop since 1935."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
See also: Evenlode.