Coombe Keynes

Hamlet in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England
  • Purbeck
Shire county
  • Dorset
Region
  • South West
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWarehamPostcode districtBH20Dialling code01929PoliceDorsetFireDorset and WiltshireAmbulanceSouth Western UK Parliament
  • South Dorset
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Dorset
50°39′27″N 2°13′27″W / 50.6576°N 2.2241°W / 50.6576; -2.2241

Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. The village is about 2 miles (3 km) south of Wool and about 5 miles (8 km) west-south-west of Wareham.

In 2013 the population of the civil parish was estimated to be 80.[1] There are 22 houses in the hamlet and 37 properties in the parish as a whole.

History

Coombe Keynes was part of Winfrith Hundred. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Cume, held by Gilbert de Magminot, Bishop of Lisieux.[2] The name Keynes derives from the later Lords of the Manor, the de Cahaignes family, who also held Tarrant Keyneston.

Later Coombe Keynes' population declined until it is now only a hamlet. The lost part of the settlement was immediately east of the parish church. The area is now a field what appear to be platforms where cottages stood and a hollow way that would have been a lane. This depopulated area is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[3]

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Rood was formerly the centre of a large parish that included the village of Wool. In 1844 Wool was made into a separate parish. The two ecclesiastical parishes were recombined in 1967.[4]

The chancel arch and west tower of Holy Rood church is 13th-century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1860–61 to designs by Thomas Hicks. It is a Gothic Revival building with nave, chancel and north porch.[5] It was deconsecrated in 1974 and is now used as a secular function room managed by the Coombe Keynes Trust.[6]

The Coombe Keynes Chalice, a rare pre-Reformation chalice with an octagonal foot with embellished angles on the stem, is now kept in the Dorset Museum.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Coombe Keynes". Domesday Map. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Medieval settlement east of Holy Rood Church (1017260)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Coombe Keynes". Dorset Online Parish Clerks.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Former Church of the Holy Rood (Grade II) (1120491)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  6. ^ "The Coombe Keynes Trust". Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Coombe Keynes Chalice". The Church of the Holy Rood, Wool, Dorset. Retrieved 11 January 2021.

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