Chilcombe is a
hamlet and
civil parish in
Dorset, England, situated in the
Dorset unitary authority administrative area about east of
Bridport and west of the county town,
Dorchester. It comprises a church, an 18th-century farmhouse with farm buildings, and a couple of cottages.
In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 10.
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In 1086 in the Domesday Book Chilcombe was recorded as ''Ciltecome''; it had 14 households, 3 ploughlands, of meadow, of pasture and one mill. It was in Uggescombe Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Brictwin the reeve.
The manor of Chilcombe together with the manor and rectory of ]Toller Fratrum
Toller Fratrum () is a very small village and civil parish in Dorset, England, near Maiden Newton, anciently in Tollerford Hundred.
The name is taken from the village's situation on the brook formerly known as the Toller, now called the Hooke. ...
formerly comprised an estate of the Knights Hospitaller, returned as the 'camera' of Chilcombe (''camera'' meaning in this context an estate with no community and farmed out to a tenant) in 1338, when it was valued at £4 5s. 4d. and paid 30 marks into the Order's treasury at Clerkenwell Priory
Clerkenwell Priory was a priory of the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, in Clerkenwell, London. Run according to the Augustinian rule, it was the residence of the Hospitallers' Grand Prior in England, and was t ...
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Parts of Chilcombe parish church — the south wall of the nave and probably also the chancel — date from the 12th century.[
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Hamlets in Dorset
