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| Name | Bartestree |
| Type | Chapelry, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.1°N 2.767°W |
| Located in | Herefordshire, England |
| Also located in | Hereford and Worcester, England (1974 - 1998) | | Herefordshire, England (1998 - ) |
| See also | Dormington, Herefordshire, England | parish in which it was a chapelry until 1866 | | Greytree Hundred, Herefordshire, England | hundred of which the parish was a part | | Hereford Rural, Herefordshire, England | rural district 1894-1974 | | South Herefordshire District, Hereford and Worcester, England | district municipality 1974-1998 | | Herefordshire District, Herefordshire, England | unitary authority since 1998 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bartestree is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, 7 km (4.3 mi) east of Hereford on the A438 road. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 330. The villages of Bartestree, Hagley (in Lugwardine parish] and Lugwardine effectively form a continuous linear settlement along the A438 road. A sizeable part of the modern-day village lies in Lugwardine civil parish. Large commercial orchards exist just to the northeast of the village, at Pomona Farm.
Bartestree was until 1866 a chapelry in the parish of Dormington.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Bartestree from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BARTESTREE, a chapelry in Dormington parish, Herefordshire; on the Worcester and Hereford railway, near the Wothington station, the Roman road, and the river Wye, 4 miles E of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford. Acres: 250. Rated property: £533. Population: 61. Houses: 13. The property is divided among a few. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Dormington, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good."
Research Tips
- Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.
Online sources which may also be helpful:
- GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
- A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
- The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
- A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
- Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
- Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
- FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.
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