The lordship in 1086 was transferred to Walter, with the canons of St Guthlac's Priory in Hereford becoming Tenant-in-chief to king William I.

[4] Two sets of medieval strip lynchets, agricultural earth terraces, exist 1,000 yards (900 m) to the east of the village.

The Catholic Convent of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge was established in Bartestree in 1863, to the designs of E. W. Pugin with later additions, to conduct the "reformation of fallen women", its funding derived from the revenues of the convent's foundation and from inmates' laundry work and underclothing manufacture.

The convent was part of the Order of Our Lady of Charity, founded in 1641 by Saint John Eudes at Caen.

The area of Bartestree was 421 acres (1.7 km2), in which was arable land, pasture meadow and hop growing, with a 1901 population of 265.

[10] Hop growing with machine harvesting, usually in September, is still carried out, particularly on 230 acres (0.93 km2) of land at Claston Farm at the north-east of the village on the A438 road.

[13] The introduction of new varieties of dwarf hops at Dormington, which grow in the form of hedges, were seen as more conducive to machine harvesting.

[15] The parish is in the Hereford and South Herefordshire Parliamentary constituency; the sitting member is Jesse Norman of the Conservative Party.

[20] The parish, narrow in proportion to its length, is orientated north-west to south-east stretching a distance of 3 miles (5 km).

Bordering parishes are Bartestree at the north-west, Weston Beggard at the north, Stoke Edith at the east, and Mordiford at the south-west.

[16][17][18][21] In 2011, the Dormington with Stoke Edith parish area was 804.89 hectares (1,990 acres) in which lived 261 people.

Its original associated farm buildings included a racing stable block, were all removed to allow the development of the present residential estate to its north-east.

[29] Today's farmhouse at Backberry Hill Farm, 400 yards (370 m) south-east from the church, is listed as Prospect Farmhouse, a timber-framed house, of part one storey and part two, with attics, and an external stair to the loft, dating to the early 16th century with later additions up to the 18th.

[36][37] At Claston Farm, close to the north-east of the village, is a two-storey tiled-roof house dating to the 17th century, with a modern extension.

[41][42][43][44] At the south of the parish near the border with Mordiford and on a hill between Prior's Court Wood and Cockshoot Wood, are the earthwork remains of Backbury Camp (called Ethelbert's Camp before 1926), an Iron Age promontory hillfort with a triple rampart and defensive ditches, covering an area of 8 acres (30,000 m2).