History
According to Robinson it is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Herpetreu meaning 'The military road by the wood' from the Old English herepoep and treow.
Between 1154 and 1172 an estate at West Harptree was granted by William FitzJohn to the Knights Templar.
The shape of some of the existing fields with cross-slope and down-slope field banks and cultivated ridges forming an interleaving irregular mosaic suggest they are of medieval origin.
The parish was part of the hundred of Chewton.
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