Description
Bartestree, a chapelry in Dormington parish, Herefordshire, on the Worcester and Hereford road, 1 mile SW of Withington station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles E of Hereford. It has 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
