DAYLESFORD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, though locally in the upper division of the hundred of Slaughter, county of Gloucester, 8 miles (E.) from. Stow on the Wold, containing 103 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Gloucester, and diocese of Worcester, rated ia the king's books at £7, and in the patronage of Mrs. Hastings. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Rev. William Langton bequeathed £ 14 a year for teaching children, which is paid to a schoolmistress. The culture of cinque-foil was introduced here prior to any other place in Engdand, in 1650. Warren Hastings, Governor General of British India, who was impeached by the parliament on his return to England in 1786, was born here.