BORDESLEY, a hamlet in that part of the parish
of TARDEBIGG which is in the upper division of the
hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 5
miles (B. S. B.) from Bromsgrove. The population is
returned with the parish. A Cistercian abbey, in honour
of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in 1138, by the Empress
Matilda, the revenue of which, a short time previously
to the dissolution, was estimated at £392. 8. 6.:
the chapel, dedicated to St. Stephen, which subsisted
for some time afterwards, formed part of it.