Colemore

Village in Hampshire, England

Human settlement in England

Colemore and Priors Dean

District

East Hampshire

Shire county

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townPetersfieldPostcode districtGU32Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

East Hampshire

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51°04′16″N 0°59′38″W / 51.071°N 0.994°W / 51.071; -0.994

Colemore is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Colemore and Priors Dean, in the East Hampshire district, in the county of Hampshire, England. It is in the Hampshire Downs about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Petersfield. In 1931 the parish had a population of 72.^[1] On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Priors Dean to form "Colemore and Priors Dean".^[2]^[3]

Colemore is a largely abandoned village. There were houses southwest of the parish church and southeast of manor farm. The land where they stood is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument.^[4]

Manor Farmhouse is an early 17th-century brick house, altered in the middle of the 19th century.^[5]

The earliest parts of the former Church of England parish church of St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in Chains") are 11th-century. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[6] It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.^[7]

The brothers John Greaves (1602–52, mathematician), Edward Greaves (1608–80, physician) and Thomas Greaves (1612–76, orientalist) were all sons of a rector of the parish and born in the village.^[8] A later orientalist, Richard Pococke (1704–65), was also the son of a rector of the parish.

References

^ "Population statistics Colemore AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ "Relationships and changes Colemore AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ "Colemore". Hantsweb. Hampshire County Council. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011.
^ Historic England. "Deserted medieval village at Colemore (1001805)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^ Historic England. "Manor Farmhouse (Grade II) (1094498)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church or St Peter ad Vincula (Grade II*) (1237037)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^ "Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore, Hampshire". Churches Conservation Trust. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
^ Page 1911, pp. 423–425.

Sources and further reading

Page, WH, ed. (1911). A History of the County of Hampshire. Victoria County History. Vol. 4. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 423–425.
Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (1967). Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 181.