Bartestree, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Bartestree, a chapelry in Dormington parish, Herefordshire, on the Worcester and Hereford road, 1 mile SK of Withington station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles E of Hereford. It lias a post and telegraph office under Hereford. Acreage, 421; population, 245. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Donnington, in the diocese of Hereford. The church was rebuilt in 1888 at a cost of £2000. There is a Roman Catholic convent and refuge, founded in 1863, and subsequently considerably enlarged. 104
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Civil parish | Dormington | |
Hundred | Greytree | |
Poor Law union | Hereford | |
Registration district | Hereford | 1837 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bartestree from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bartestree)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bartestree are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: