What is "chilcombe"

Chilcombe is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district 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.

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.

Parts of Chilcombe parish church—the south wall of the nave and probably also the chancel—date from the 12th century. The Tudor manor house was demolished in 1939.