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Coombe Keynes

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"COOMBE-KEYNES (HOLY ROOD), a parish, in the union of WAREHAM and PURBECK, hundred of WINFRITH, Wareham division of DORSET, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Wareham, containing 135 inhabitants. The village appears, from numerous old foundations and traces of the sites of gardens, to have been originally of greater extent, and is supposed to have dwindled into its present state of a few inconsiderable cottages, from the want of a supply of water. Sandstone of very inferior quality is dug on the heath land for fences. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's buoks at £13. 18. 11½., and in the gift of J. Weld, Esq., the impropriator: the great tithes have been commuted for £201. 15., and the vicarial for £110. The church is partly early English, and partly of later date." Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 7th edition, 1848. Transcribed by Nigel Batty-Smith ©2014

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Churches

Anglican
Coomb Keynes, Church of England
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Church History

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Church Records

  • The Dorset History Centre hold the Parish Registers for Coombe Keynes:
    Baptisms: 1585-1736, 1744­1811, 1813-1973 Marriages: 1583-1654, 1663­1714, 1746-1975 Burials: 1586-1686, 1695­ 1698, 1714-1722, 1729, 1733, 1747­ 1810 (DHC Ref: PE/WOO part of Wool parish)
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Description & Travel

  • A description of Coombe Keynes from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
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Gazetteers

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"COOMBE KEYNES, a parish in the hundred of Winfrith, in the South Blandford division of the county of Dorset, 5 miles W. of Wareham, its post town, and 1½ mile S. of Wool station on the South-Western line. It contains the village of Wool. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value £95, in the patronage of J. Weld, Esq. There is a district church at Wool, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £80, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to the Holy Rood, is an ancient edifice, with square tower. J. Weld, Esq., is lord of the manor, and resides at Lulworth Castle."

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Genealogy

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SY843843 (Lat/Lon: 50.65814, -2.224088), Coombe Keynes which are provided by: