{{Short description|Civil parish in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |official_name = Winterborne Came |static_image = Came House, Winterborne Came - geograph.org.uk - 187624.jpg |static_image_width = 240px |static_image_caption = Came House, Winterborne Came |map_type = Dorset |coordinates = {{coord|50.6944|-2.4173|display=inline,title}} |population = 40 |population_ref = <ref name=dcc>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=21 March 2015|publisher=Dorset County Council|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121135528/https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|url-status=dead}}</ref> | unitary_england= [[Dorset (district)|Dorset]] | lieutenancy_england= [[Dorset]] |post_town = Dorchester |postcode_area = DT |postcode_district = DT2 |region = South West England |os_grid_reference = SY706883 }} '''Winterborne Came''' is a small dispersed settlement and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the county of [[Dorset]] in [[England]], situated in the west of the county, approximately {{convert|1|mi|km}} south-east of the county town [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]. [[Dorset County Council]]'s 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population was 40.<ref name=dcc/>
Winterborne Came derives its name from the seasonal stream ('winterborne') by which it is sited, and from the town of [[Caen]] in [[France]], as it was once owned by the [[Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen|Abbey of St. Stephen]] there.<ref>Treves, Sir F., ''Highways and Byways in Dorset'', Macmillan, 1905, p362</ref> The parish consists of [[Came House]], built in 1754 in the [[Palladian style]],<ref>Gant, R., ''Dorset Villages'', Hale 1980, p178</ref> the nearby [[Perpendicular Period|Perpendicular]] [[St Peter's Church, Winterborne Came|St. Peter's Church]], a couple of farms, and an [[Old Came Rectory|old rectory]] on the Dorchester to Wareham road, where for 25 years the Dorset dialect poet [[William Barnes]] lived when he was the incumbent rector. Barnes died in the rectory and is buried in the churchyard. About 100 metres west of the church is the site of the deserted village of [[Winterborne Farringdon]], which has been depopulated since at least the 18th century.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Dorset}} {{West Dorset}} {{authority control}}
[[Category:Villages in Dorset]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Dorset]]