Description
Hailes or Hayles, a parish in Gloucestershire, under the Cotswolds, 2 miles NE of Winchcombe, and 6 SE of Beckford station on the M.R. Post town, Winchcombe- (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1447; population, 63. The manor belonged anciently, to Osgot, the Saxon, and belongs now to Lord Sudclpy, A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1246 by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was given at the dissolution to Sir Thomas Seymour, aud passed to the Marquis of Northampton and the Trades. Some interesting remains of the abbey are still standing. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Didbrook, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Patron, Lord Sndeley. The church is small, and was built in the 16th century.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
