# Chilcombe

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Hamlet in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Chilcombe Chilcombe church Chilcombe Location within Dorset Population 10 [1] OS grid reference SY528910 Civil parish Chilcombe Unitary authority Dorset Ceremonial county Dorset Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Bridport Postcode district DT6 Dialling code 01308 Police Dorset Fire 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](/source/Hamlet_(place)) and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) in [Dorset](/source/Dorset), England, situated in the [Dorset](/source/Dorset_(unitary_authority)) unitary authority administrative area about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of [Bridport](/source/Bridport) and 10 miles (16 km) west of the county town, [Dorchester](/source/Dorchester%2C_Dorset). 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](/source/Domesday_Book) Chilcombe was recorded as *Ciltecome*;[3] it had 14 households, 3 [ploughlands](/source/Ploughland), 25 acres (10 ha) of meadow, 20 acres (8.1 ha) of pasture and one mill. It was in [Uggescombe Hundred](/source/Uggescombe_Hundred) and the lord and [tenant-in-chief](/source/Tenant-in-chief) was Brictwin the reeve.[4]

The manor of Chilcombe together with the manor and rectory of [Toller Fratrum](/source/Toller_Fratrum) formerly comprised an estate of the [Knights Hospitaller](/source/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](/source/Clerkenwell_Priory).[5]

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

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dcc_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dcc_1-1) ["Parish Population Data"](https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882). [Dorset County Council](/source/Dorset_County_Council). 20 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-gant_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-gant_2-1) Roland Gant (1980). *Dorset Villages*. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 158. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7091-8135-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7091-8135-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Dorset A-G"](http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset1.html). *The Domesday Book Online*. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Place: Chilcombe"](http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY5291/chilcombe/). *Open Domesday*. domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2015.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["'Chilcombe', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1: West (1952), pp. 96-98"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=127216). *British History Online*. University of London & History of Parliament Trust. November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

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