Bincombe
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet,[1] and civil parish in Dorset, England, Script error: No such module "convert". north of Weymouth. The village is Script error: No such module "convert". from Upwey railway station and Script error: No such module "convert". from Bournemouth International Airport. The main road running through the village is Icen Lane. The civil parish, which includes a small part of the settlement of Broadwey to the west, had a population of 514 in the 2011 census.[2]
The village stands on a limestone ridge Script error: No such module "convert". south of Dorchester. Holy Trinity Church dates from the early 13th century.[1]
Large military camps for the observation of the English Channel were formed on the hills in this parish in the reign of George III, and two deserters, in trying to escape with details of the different camps, were captured in the English Channel, tried by court martial and shot on Bincombe Down.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Their remains are buried in the churchyard, where the stone can still be seen.[3] The same incident, differently interpreted, forms the basis of Thomas Hardy's short story, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Master and Fellows of Caius College, Cambridge, are the principal landowners.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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