Hartfoot Lane
Early-attested site in the Parish of Hilton
Historical Forms
- Harpers or Harefoot Lane 1774 Hutch1
- Harpur's Lane 1795 Boswell
- Harefoot Lane 1811 OS
- Harpath, Harpers or Harefoot Lane 1870 Hutch3
- Harpydway 1384 Prideaux e16
Etymology
Hartfoot Lane (ST 763027) [ˈhɑːrbət], Harpers or Harefoot Lane (a hamlet) 1774 Hutch1, Harpur 's Lane 1795 Boswell, Harefoot Lane 1811 OS, Harpath , Harpers or Harefoot Lane 1870 Hutch3 ('it is now sometimes spelt Hartfoot or Hardput '). Clearly subject to much recent popular etymology, but the form Harpath is the most historically correct, since this small hamlet is situated on the NE continuation of the here-pæð 'highway' of the OE bounds of Cheselbourne, v. on anne herepað , etc, in Cheselbourne f.ns. supra .Moreover, two miles further NE from the hamlet of Hartfoot Lane the same route is apparently Harpydway 1384 (e16) Prideaux in the bounds of Woolland par. infra , v. weg .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Aller (Fm)
- Hr Ansty, Lr Ansty
- Hatherly Dairy, Hatherly Fm
- Newton Fm
- Palbroke or Parbrook
- Rawlsbury Camp, Rawlsbury Fm, Rawlsbury Wd
Other OS name
- Crockers Fm
- Harts
- Cothayes Dairy, Cothayes Drove
- Fern Wd
- Thomas's Hill Plant.
- Aldermore
- All Saints' Church
- Ansty Cross, Ansty Hollow, Hr Ansty Fm
- Breach Wd
- Broadclose
- Brooks Copse
- Castle Lake Spring
- Chilmore
- Coombe Btm, Coombe Hill, Coombe Wd
- Crown Inn
- Skinners Bottom
- Corn Mill
- Cuckoo Lane (Wd)
- Hill Barn
- Hilton Bottom (Barn)
- Hilton Higher Fm (Dairy)
- Hilton Hill Bldgs
- Hilton Lower Fm
- Hilton Wd
- Hoopers Lane
- Ice Drove
- Links Plant.
- Little Down Plant.
- Lower Gdns
- Mash Water
- Mill Pond
- Moots Copse
- North Wd
- Peck Mill
- Pleck or Little Ansty, Pleck Fm, Pleck Lane
- Raspberry Copse