COOMBE-KEYNES, a parish in the hundred of WINFRITH, Blandford (South) division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Wareham, containing 128 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £13. 18. 11½. John Bond, Esq. was patron in 1795. The church, dedicated to the Holy Rood, has a chancel in the early style of English architecture. There is a chapel of ease at Wool, in this parish. The court leet is held by the tenure that the tything-man shall proceed to do suit at Winfrith court, repeating a few doggerel lines, and paying a fine of threepence. There is a small endowed school.

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