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Abbas and Templecombe

Templecombe
Stone 3-storey building with white frames windows on street junction. Sign saying shop.
Templecombe is located in Somerset
Templecombe
Templecombe
Templecombe shown within Somerset
Population 1,560 (2011)
OS grid reference ST709223
Civil parish
  • Abbas and Templecombe
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Templecombe
Postcode district BA8
Dialling code 01963
Police Avon and Somerset
Fire Devon and Somerset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Somerset
51°00′00″N 2°24′54″W / 50.999982°N 2.415075°W / 50.999982; -2.415075Coordinates: 51°00′00″N 2°24′54″W / 50.999982°N 2.415075°W / 50.999982; -2.415075

Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 road five miles south of Wincanton, twelve miles east of Yeovil, and 30 miles west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Along with the hamlet of Combe Throop it forms the parish of Abbas and Templecombe.

Prior to the Norman Conquest Combe was held by Leofwine Godwinson.

One part of the village was known as Abbas Combe which was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086–7 as Cumbe, when it was held by the church of St Edward, Shaftesbury.

The other manor within the parish was held by Earl Leofwine but after the Norman Conquest was given to Bishop Odo of Bayeux. It was his descendant Serlo FitzOdo who granted it to the Knights Templar.

The parish was part of the hundred of Horethorne.

Templecombe derives its name from Combe Templariorum, after the Knights Templar who established Templecombe Preceptory in the village in 1185. After they were suppressed in 1312 it was granted to the Knights of St John who held it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, after which it was acquired by Richard Duke (d.1572) of Otterton, Devon. An attempt to discover 'the village of the templars' was made by the Time Team television series, in a programme first shown in 1996. Late in the investigation, an old tithe map revealed the location of the Templar site, and an old stone boundary wall was found to be still standing seven feet high.


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