Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and

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in the county of

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, situated in the west of the county, approximately south-east of the county town Dorchester.

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's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population was 40. Winterborne Came derives its name from the seasonal stream ('winterborne') by which it is sited, and from the town of Caen in

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, as it was once owned by the Abbey of St. Stephen there. The parish consists of

Came House Came House is a privately owned country house next to the village of Winterborne Came, in Dorset, England. Built in the mid-18th century, it is a Grade I listed building. Description History The house was built for John Damer by Francis Cartwrig ...

, built in 1754 in the

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,Gant, R., ''Dorset Villages'', Hale 1980, p178 the nearby

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St. Peter's Church, a couple of farms, and an old rectory on the Dorchester to Wareham road, where for 25 years the Dorset dialect poet

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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.

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