Bartonsham is an

inner city The term inner city (also called the hood) has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area. Soc ...

suburb of the city of

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

Herefordshire Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh ...

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

River Wye The River Wye (; ) is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn Estuary. The lower reaches of the river forms part of Wales-England bor ...

. It is bounded by Hereford City Centre, Eign Hill,

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and

Tupsley Tupsley is a historic village, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, ward and suburb of the city of Hereford in Herefordshire, England. It is located southeast of the city centre and close to the River Wye. Tupsley is surrounded b ...

. It is part of the Central Ward.

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 Eccle ...

. They were used for grazing until 2023 and were then leased for 25 years to the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust 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 listed. ''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. 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.

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