BRETFORTON, a parish in the upper division of
the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER,
3 miles (E.) from Evesham, containing 451 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Bishop of Worcester, rated in the king's
books at £6. 5., endowed with £600 private benefaction,
and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Rev. Dr. Timbrill. The church is dedicated to
St. Leonard.