Hartley has had a long history going back to to Roman times or perhaps even earlier. All Saints Church goes back around 1,000 years to the original building , now much modified.
Happily a more recent book - “THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS - Local government in the village of Hartley “is still available and can be seen in the Hartley Library.
This book gives some detail of the work of the Parish Meeting and later the Parish Councils from 1894 to 1994.
(original minutes for these years can be seen on reference disk in Hartley Library)