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Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England. The village is about Template:Convert south of Wool and about Template:Convert west-south-west of Wareham.
In 2013 the population of the civil parish was estimated to be 80.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There are 22 houses in the hamlet and 37 properties in the parish as a whole.
HistoryEdit
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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 hollow way that would have been a lane. This depopulated area is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.<ref>Template:NHLE</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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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>Template:NHLE</ref> It was deconsecrated in 1974 and is now used as a secular function room managed by the Coombe Keynes Trust.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>