Excerpt from A Cotteswold Shrine: Being a Contribution to the History of Hailes, County Gloucester, Manor, Parish and Abbey

It may, perhaps, be thought that the story should have been kept within narrower limits, that is, strictly to the Manor, Parish, and Abbey thus intimately wedded, that the limner might have employed a smaller canvas, and this more especially so, because the story of Winchcombe (placed but two and a half miles away), has a long while since found a loving pen. This, nevertheless, proved impracticable, for the reason that both Sudeley Castle and Winchcombe Abbey (as nearest neighbours often are found to do), considerably in¿uenced the course of the destinies of Hailes and of some of its owners, both as a Manor and as an Abbey.

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