GRAFTON, a township in the parish of BECKFORD,
hundred of TIBALDSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER, 7
miles (N.E. by E.) from Tewkesbury. The population
is returned with the parish. In 1764, in consequence,
it is supposed, of some incessant rains, a tract of sixteen
acres of land fell from the side of Breedon hill,
and covered the fields at the bottom.