Chilcombe

{{Short description|Hamlet in Dorset, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = Chilcombe Church - geograph.org.uk - 415863.jpg

| static_image_caption = Chilcombe church

| official_name = Chilcombe

| country = England

| region = South West England

| os_grid_reference = SY528910

| coordinates = {{coord|50.7173|-2.6695|display=inline,title}}

| population = 10

| population_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|publisher=Dorset County Council|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=28 February 2015}}

| civil_parish = Chilcombe

| unitary_england = Dorset

| lieutenancy_england = Dorset

| constituency_westminster = West Dorset

| post_town = Bridport

| postcode_district = DT6

| postcode_area = DT

| dial_code = 01308

| london_distance =

| website =

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Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area about {{convert|4|mi|km}} east of Bridport and {{convert|10|mi|km}} west of the county town, Dorchester. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages.{{cite book|title=Dorset Villages|author=Roland Gant|publisher=Robert Hale Ltd|page=158|year=1980|isbn=0-7091-8135-3}} In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10.

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Chilcombe was recorded as Ciltecome;{{cite web |url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset1.html |title=Dorset A-G |publisher=domesdaybook.co.uk |work=The Domesday Book Online |accessdate=28 February 2015}} it had 14 households, 3 ploughlands, {{convert|25|acre|ha}} of meadow, {{convert|20|acre|ha}} of pasture and one mill. It was in Uggescombe Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Brictwin the reeve.{{cite web |url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY5291/chilcombe/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150228092631/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY5291/chilcombe/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 February 2015 |title=Place: Chilcombe |work=Open Domesday |publisher=domesdaymap.co.uk |accessdate=28 February 2015 }}

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.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

Parts of Chilcombe parish church — the south wall of the nave and probably also the chancel — date from the 12th century.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=127216|title='Chilcombe', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1: West (1952), pp. 96-98|publisher=University of London & History of Parliament Trust|work=British History Online|date=November 2013|accessdate=9 July 2014}} The Tudor manor house was demolished in 1939.