HARPTREE (WEST), a village and a parish in Clutton district, Somerset. The village stands 1 mile N by W of East Harptree, and 7½ N of Wells r. station; and contains the old and interesting manor-houses of Gournay and Tilly, now converted into farm dwellings. The parish comprises 2,850 acres. Post-town, Blagdon, under Bristol. Real property, £4,472. Pop., 539. Houses, 118. The manor of Gournay belongs to the Prince of Wales; and that of Tilly, to W. F. Newton, Esq. A wooded hollow, called Haydon's Gully, in a hill-side, 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. Value, £220.* Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is ancient; was recently restored, and a transept added, at a cost of £1,500; and comprises nave, aisle, and porch, with tower and spire. An endowed school has £3, and other charities have £45.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))