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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe chapelry of Bartestree. its mother parish being Dormington, lies in the southeastern portion of central Herefordshire roughly 4 miles east of the county town of Hereford. Bartestree is located on and mostly west of the A438 road which links Hereford with Ledbury. Old maps show a tiny hamlet gathered along a winding lane through orchards and passing the former church of St James, today there are a number of small commuter developments enlarging the settlement. The orchards are something of a Herefordshire speciality with cider apples the main crop other land was used for dairy cattle another county speciality. Bartestree sits on a neck of higher ground between the rivers Frome and Lugg into which water heads both soon meet and join the Wye for its long journey to the outer Bristol Channel arriving through Chepstow. Bartestree stands at around 90 metres above the sea, the highest ground until isolated hills such as Backbury Hill at 196 metres and Shucknatt Hill at 176 metres are met to south and northeast respectively. Only around 410 acres was set aside for Bartestree chapelry and that tiny acreage supported fewer than 50 parishioners. In Domesday times Bartestree was held by one Nigel, a doctor, and could muster just 6 ploughs as its sole assets. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
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22nd October 1811 |
Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre - Reference -
AF59/1 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns &
Marriage register with 4 entries per page |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
Just one entry |
2 | 27th June 1814 - 3rd March 1825 | Herefordshire Archives & Record Centre - Reference - AF59/2 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Withington
St Peter
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Withington
St Peter
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Withington
St Peter
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Lugwardine
St Peter
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Lugwardine
St Peter
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