Colemore
{{Short description|Village and parish in Hampshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2015}}
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|static_image_caption= St Peter ad Vincula parish church
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|official_name= Colemore
|civil_parish= Colemore and Priors Dean
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|shire_county = Hampshire
|region= South East England
|country= England
|constituency_westminster= East Hampshire
|post_town= Petersfield
|postcode_district= GU32
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Colemore is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Colemore and Priors Dean, in the East Hampshire district, in the county of Hampshire, England. It is in the Hampshire Downs about {{convert|5|mi|0}} northwest of Petersfield.
History
In 1931 the parish had a population of 72.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10212560/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Colemore AP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=15 May 2023}} On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Priors Dean to form "Colemore and Priors Dean".{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10212560|title=Relationships and changes Colemore AP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=15 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www3.hants.gov.uk/index/your-area/localpages/north-east/alton/colemore.htm |title=Colemore |work=Hantsweb |publisher=Hampshire County Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823034751/http://www3.hants.gov.uk/index/your-area/localpages/north-east/alton/colemore.htm |archive-date=23 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}
Colemore is a largely abandoned village. There were houses southwest of the parish church and southeast of manor farm. The land where they stood is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.{{NHLE |num=1001805 |desc=Deserted medieval village at Colemore |accessdate=30 December 2015}}
Manor Farmhouse is an early 17th-century brick house, altered in the middle of the 19th century.{{NHLE |num=1094498 |desc=Manor Farmhouse |grade=II |accessdate=30 December 2015}} There was a National School in the village in the 19th century.{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Colemore|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/Colemore|access-date=1 October 2024}}
Church
The earliest parts of the former Church of England parish church of St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in Chains") are eleventh-century. It is a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num=1237037 |desc=Church or St Peter ad Vincula |grade=II* |accessdate=30 December 2015}} It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.{{cite web |url= http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-Peter-ad-Vincula-Colemore-Hampshire/ |title=Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore, Hampshire |publisher=Churches Conservation Trust |access-date=31 March 2011}}
Notable people
The brothers John Greaves (1602–52, mathematician), Edward Greaves (1608–80, physician) and Thomas Greaves (1612–76, orientalist) were all sons of a rector of the parish and born in the village.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=423–425}} A later orientalist, Richard Pococke (1704–65), was also the son of a rector of the parish.
References
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Sources and further reading
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=WH |editor1-link=William Henry Page |year=1911 |title=A History of the County of Hampshire |volume=4 |series=Victoria County History |place=Westminster |publisher=Archibald Constable & Co |pages=423–425 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp423-425 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |authorlink1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Lloyd |first2=David |year=1967 |title=Hampshire and the Isle of Wight |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |page=181 }}
External links
{{Commons category-inline|Colemore}}
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Category:Villages in Hampshire