Editing 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 Church, Coombe Keynes|Holy Rood parish church]]
| coordinates = {{coord|50.6576|-2.2241|display=inline,title}}
| os_grid_reference = SY842842
| population = 80
| unitary_england = [[Dorset (district)|Dorset]]
| lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]]
| region = South West England
| country = England
| constituency_westminster = [[South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|South Dorset]]
| post_town = [[Wareham, Dorset|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 [[Abandoned village#Deserted medieval villages|depopulated village]] in [[Dorset]], England. The village is about {{convert|2|mi|0}} south of [[Wool, Dorset|Wool]] and about {{convert|5|mi|0}} west-south-west of [[Wareham, Dorset|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)|Winfrith Hundred]]. The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 records it as Cume, held by [[Gilbert de Magminot]], [[Ancient Diocese of Lisieux|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 [[Lord of the Manor|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 monument|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 Church, Coombe Keynes|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 architecture|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-[[English Reformation|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>
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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=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides#Buildings of England|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=[[The Stationery Office|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]
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[[Category:Civil parishes in Dorset]]
[[Category:Hamlets in Dorset]]