West Harptree, Somerset

Description
Harptree, West, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 1 mile N by W of East Harptree, and about 5 miles from Clutton station on the G.W.R., and contains the old manor houses of Gournay and Tilly, now converted into farm dwellings. There is a post office under Blagdon; money order and telegraph office, East Harptree. Acreage of the civil parish, 3046; population, 347; of the ecclesiastical, 327. The manor of Gournay belongs to the Prince of Wales, and that of Tilly to the Newtons. A wooded hollow called Haydon's Gully, in a hillside, derives its name from having been the hiding-place of Colonel Haydon, a partisan of the Duke of Monmouth. The living is a vicarage-in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is ancient, was restored in 1864, and a transept added, at a cost of £1500, and comprises nave, aisle, and porch, with-tower and spire.