HAILES, a chapelry in the parish of DIDBROOK,
lower division of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of
GLOUCESTER,.2 miles (N.E. by E.) from Winchcombe,
containing 136 inhabitants. The living is a perpetua
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester,
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Charles Hanbury Tracey, Esq. In 1246, Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, afterwards King of the Romans and
Emperor of Germany, erected here, at an expense of ten
thousand marks, a noble abbey, dedicated to the Virgi
Mary and All Saints, for monks of the Cistercian order,
the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was estimated
at £357. 7. 8.: here are still some slight remains of it.