Coombe Keynes
{{Short description|Hamlet in Dorset, England}}
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{{Infobox UK place
|official_name = Coombe Keynes
|static_image_name = Coombe Keynes Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 82686.jpg
|static_image_caption = Holy Rood parish church
|coordinates = {{coord|50.6576|-2.2241|display=inline,title}}
|os_grid_reference = SY842842
|population = 80
| unitary_england= Dorset
| lieutenancy_england= Dorset
|region= South West England
|country = England
|constituency_westminster= South Dorset
|post_town= Wareham
|postcode_district= BH20
|postcode_area= BH
|dial_code= 01929
|website= [http://www.coombekeynes.com/ Coombe Keynes Community web site]
}}
Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England. The village is about {{convert|2|mi|0}} south of Wool and about {{convert|5|mi|0}} west-south-west of Wareham.
In 2013 the population of the civil parish was estimated to be 80.{{cite web |url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882 |title=Parish Population Data |publisher=Dorset County Council |access-date=11 February 2015 |date=20 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102112421/https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882 |archive-date=2 November 2014 |df=dmy-all }} 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.{{cite web |url= http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY8484/coombe-keynes/ |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120729083826/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY8484/coombe-keynes/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2012-07-29 |title=Coombe Keynes |work=Domesday Map }} 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 with 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.{{NHLE |num=1017260 |desc=Medieval settlement east of Holy Rood Church |accessdate=11 June 2017}}
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.{{cite web |url= http://www.opcdorset.org/CoombeKeynesFiles/CoombeKeynes.htm |title=Coombe Keynes |work=Dorset Online Parish Clerks }}
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.{{NHLE |num=1120491 |desc=Former Church of the Holy Rood |grade=II |accessdate=11 June 2017}} It was deconsecrated in 1974 and is now used as a secular function room managed by the Coombe Keynes Trust.{{cite web |url= http://www.coombekeynes.com/businesses/ |title=The Coombe Keynes Trust |access-date=11 June 2017}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.holyroodwool.org/Treasures/Chalice.htm|title=Coombe Keynes Chalice|website=The Church of the Holy Rood, Wool, Dorset|access-date=11 January 2021}}
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References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Newman |first1=John |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author2-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1972 |title=Dorset |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-071044-2 |page=161}}
- {{cite book |editor=RCHME |editor-link=Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England |year=1970 |title=An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset |volume=2, South East |place=London |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |pages=49–52 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol2/pp49-52}}
External links
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- [http://www.coombekeynes.com/ Coombe Keynes Community web site]
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