DEERHURST, (Gloucestershire) 2 little m. S. of Tewksbury, is a p. 8 m. in com. subject, by its low situation, to frequent
inundations from the Severn, which runs 2 m. together on the W. side of it. It has a bridge over it, (opposite to Alney
Island) called Gildable-Bridge, from certain tolls and cusloms that were anciently paid at it. Here was a mon. built in
715, which the Danes destroyed, but was afterwards rebuilt, and made an alien priory, and then a denizen priory, under the
patronage of the abbot of Tewksbury. Its being built in the R. of Edward the Conf. and its consecration by the then Bp. of
Worcester, is denoted by a Latin inscription on a stone, which, in 1675, was dug up in the orchard of one Mr. Powel. The
manor bel. to Westminster-Abbey before the Norman Conquest; Hen. VIII. at the Diss. granted it to the D. and C. of
Westminster; the popish Q. Mary resumed it, and gave it to the convent of Westminster; but Q. Eliz. restored it to the
Protestant Ch. of Westminster, to which it bel. to this day. There was a fine spire to its Ch. which, in 1666, was blown
down. The ancient priory bel. to the Earl of Coventry, who takes his title of Visc. from this T.