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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]

Colemore
St Peter ad Vincula parish church
Colemore Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU705307
Civil parish	Colemore and Priors Dean
District	East Hampshire
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Petersfield
Postcode district	GU32
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	East Hampshire
List of places UK England Hampshire 51.071°N 0.994°W / 51.071; -0.994

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.

References

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.

External links

Media related to Colemore at Wikimedia Commons

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