Bartonsham is an

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suburb of the city of

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a populatio ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

, England. It is located southeast of the city centre on the

River Wye The River Wye (; cy, Afon Gwy ) is the fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn estuary. For much of its length the river forms part of the border between England and Wales ...

. It is bounded by Hereford City Centre,

Eign Hill Eign Hill is an eastern suburb and ward of Hereford in Herefordshire, England. The population at the 2011 census of the ward was 3,390. Eign Hill is one of the sixteen wards of Hereford City Council. Eign Hill is bordered by the suburbs of Bart ...

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and Tupsley. It is part of the

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Bartonsham meadows

The water meadows enclosed by a meander of the

are owned by the

Church Commissioners The Church Commissioners is a body which administers the property assets of the Church of England. It was established in 1948 and combined the assets of Queen Anne's Bounty, a fund dating from 1704 for the relief of poor clergy, and of the Ecc ...

. They were used for grazing until 2023 and were then leased for 25 years to the

Herefordshire Wildlife Trust The Herefordshire Wildlife Trust (formally Herefordshire Nature Trust) is a wildlife trust covering the county of Herefordshire, England. References External links Herefordshire Wildlife Trust website* Wildlife Trusts of England {{Eng ...

which is restoring the land as a nature reserve.

St James' Church

St James' Church, built in 1869 and restored in 1903 after a fire, is grade II

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. ''Includes detailed description of the church's history'' It is part of a joint ecclesiastical parish with the grade II* listed St Peter's church in the city centre. An earlier church, St Owen's, dated from the 11th century but was destroyed in 1645 during the

Siege of Hereford The siege of Hereford took place in 1645 during the English Civil War when the city of Hereford and its English Royalist garrison was besieged by a Scottish Covenanter army under the command of the Earl of Leven. The Covenanters were allied to ...

. St James's church was built when the population of this part of the city expanded rapidly in the second half of the 19th century.

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Herefordshire River Wye Areas of Hereford