HILLESLEY, a tything in the parish of HAWKESBURY, upper division of the hundred of GRUMBALDS-ASH, county of GLOUCESTER, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from Wotton under Edge, containing, with Hillcott, Saddlewood, and Tresham, 800 inhabitants. Here was anciently a chapel dedicated to St. Giles, but it has been demolished.