DIDBROOK, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 2 miles
(N.E.) from Winchcombe, containing 291 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with which the
rectory of Pinnock is consolidated, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at
£7 9. 10., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of C. Hanbury Tracy, Esq. The church,
dedicated to St. George, appears from an inscription
to have been built about 1470; it is in the later style
of English architecture, with an embattled tower and
some stained glass. There is a chapel of ease at Hayles,
in this parish.