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 = <ref name=dcc>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|publisher=[[Dorset County Council]]|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref> | civil_parish = Chilcombe | unitary_england = [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset]] | lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]] | constituency_westminster = [[West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|West Dorset]] | post_town = Bridport | postcode_district = DT6 | postcode_area = DT | dial_code = 01308 | london_distance = | website = }} '''Chilcombe''' is a [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in [[Dorset]], England, situated in the [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset]] unitary authority administrative area about {{convert|4|mi|km}} east of [[Bridport]] and {{convert|10|mi|km}} west of the county town, [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages.<ref name=gant>{{cite book|title=Dorset Villages|author=Roland Gant|publisher=Robert Hale Ltd|page=158|year=1980|isbn=0-7091-8135-3}}</ref> In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10.<ref name=dcc/>

In 1086 in the [[Domesday Book]] Chilcombe was recorded as ''Ciltecome'';<ref>{{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}}</ref> it had 14 households, 3 [[ploughland]]s, {{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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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]].<ref>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</ref>

Parts of Chilcombe parish church — the south wall of the [[nave]] and probably also the [[chancel]] — date from the 12th century.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] manor house was demolished in 1939.<ref name=gant/>

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