Colemore is a hamlet and former village in the Hampshire Downs about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Petersfield. It was united with Priors Dean to form the civil parish of Colemore and Priors Dean in 1932.[1]
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![]() St Peter ad Vincula parish church | |
![]() ![]() Colemore Location within Hampshire | |
OS grid reference | SU705307 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Petersfield |
Postcode district | GU32 |
Police | Hampshire |
Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Ambulance | South Central |
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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.[2]
Manor Farmhouse is an early 17th-century brick house, altered in the middle of the 19th century.[3]
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.[4] It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[5]
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.[6] A later orientalist, Richard Pococke (1704–65), was also the son of a rector of the parish.
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