{{Short description|Village in Gloucestershire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | region = South West England | shire_county = Gloucestershire | coordinates = {{coord|51.790|N|2.271|W}} | shire_district = Stroud | static_image_name = Haresfield church (geograph 3357559).jpg | static_image_caption = St Peter's Church, Haresfield | population = 378 | population_ref = (2011 Census) | constituency_westminster = Stroud | post_town = Stonehouse | postcode_area = GL | postcode_district = GL10 }}
'''Haresfield''' is a village near Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England around one mile from Junction 12 of the M5 motorway and between the villages of Brookthorpe, Harescombe and Hardwicke. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 378.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124230&c=GL10+3EE&d=16&e=62&g=6427935&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427651552533&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate=29 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112415/https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124230&c=GL10+3EE&d=16&e=62&g=6427935&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427651552533&enc=1|archivedate=4 March 2016}}</ref>
The Mount, a moated site to the west of the current village may have been the site of the earliest settlement.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mount moated site, Haresfield|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1020655?section=official-list-entry|access-date=22 April 2024}}</ref> The church was built nearby in the mid-12th century, while the village developed to the east.<ref>{{cite web|title=VCH Gloucestershire, volume 10: Haresfield – introduction|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/pp188-190}}</ref>
Haresfield today is a largely residential village with a pub, The Beacon Inn. The church, which is dedicated to St Peter,<ref>[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/haresfield-st-peter/ St Peter, Haresfield – Gloucester]</ref> is apart from the village itself and accessed by a public right of way on a private drive. Haresfield Court (originally Moat Place) was built c.1676 and enlarged in 1869 by the local architect Francis Niblett. It was converted to flats in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire|first1=David|last1=Verey|first2=Alan|last2=Brooks|date=2002|edition=3|volume=2|page=527}}</ref> The village was formerly served on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway by Haresfield railway station.<ref>{{cite book|title="The" National Gazetteer:A Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands|date=1868|volume=2|page=194}}</ref>
A tune 'Haresfield' by John Dykes Bower 1905-1981 appears in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard #511 for the hymn 'The great Creator of the worlds' by Francis Bland Tucker, American hymnwriter 1895-1984.
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