Chilcombe

Hamlet in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Chilcombe

Unitary authority

Dorset

Shire county

Dorset

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBridportPostcode districtDT6Dialling code01308PoliceDorsetFire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

West Dorset

List of places: UK; England; Dorset

50°43′02″N 2°40′10″W / 50.7173°N 2.6695°W / 50.7173; -2.6695

Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Bridport and 10 miles (16 km) west of the county town, Dorchester. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages.^[2] In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10.^[1]

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Chilcombe was recorded as Ciltecome;^[3] it had 14 households, 3 ploughlands, 25 acres (10 ha) of meadow, 20 acres (8.1 ha) of pasture and one mill. It was in Uggescombe Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Brictwin the reeve.^[4]

The manor of Chilcombe together with the manor and rectory of Toller Fratrum formerly comprised an estate of the Knights Hospitaller, returned as the 'camera' of Chilcombe (camera meaning in this context an estate with no community and farmed out to a tenant) in 1338, when it was valued at £4 5s. 4d. and paid 30 marks into the Order's treasury at Clerkenwell Priory.^[5]

Parts of Chilcombe parish church — the south wall of the nave and probably also the chancel — date from the 12th century.^[6] The Tudor manor house was demolished in 1939.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 158. ISBN 0-7091-8135-3.
^ "Dorset A-G". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ "Place: Chilcombe". Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ Rev. L.B. Larking, The Knights Hospitallers in England being the Report of Prior Philip de Thame to the Grand Master Elyan de Villanova for A.D. 1338, Camden Society, 1857
^ "'Chilcombe', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1: West (1952), pp. 96-98". British History Online. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2014.