{{Short description|Hamlet in Dorset, England}} {{Refimprove|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{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] | type = Hamlet }} '''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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 sunken lane. This depopulated area is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1017260 |desc=Medieval settlement east of Holy Rood Church |accessdate=11 June 2017}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.opcdorset.org/CoombeKeynesFiles/CoombeKeynes.htm |title=Coombe Keynes |work=Dorset Online Parish Clerks }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1120491 |desc=Former Church of the Holy Rood |grade=II |accessdate=11 June 2017}}</ref> It was deconsecrated in 1974 and is now used as a secular function room managed by the Coombe Keynes Trust.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pippa |first=Punch |date=28 May 2025 |title=The Coombe Keynes Trust |url=https://www.coombekeynes.com/trust/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=The Coombe Keynes Trust}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Holy Rood Wool">{{cite web |title=Coombe Keynes Chalice |url=https://www.coombekeynes.com/the-coombe-keynes-chalice/ |access-date=28 May 2025 |website=The Coombe Keynes Trust}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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== {{Commonscat|Coombe Keynes}} *[http://www.coombekeynes.com/ Coombe Keynes Community web site] {{Purbeck}}
Category:Civil parishes in Dorset Category:Hamlets in Dorset