The gaden in summer

The village church

Coombe Keynes

The garden and village

We have a fairly large garden in which our guests are welcome to relax after their day out. Closest to the house, the lawn is surrounded by well-established borders. Further away, there is a large vegetable and fruit garden where we grow most of our own produce. This is fringed by apple, pear, and plum trees and beyond, there is a small area of meadow - and the chicken run.

Coombe Keynes is a small parish, centred on a knot of cottages around a small green, and our guest bedrooms have views acrioss the green. A short way off the green, the village church, rebuilt in 1861, now belongs to the parishioners and is used as a community hall.
For over 300 years, up to about 1970, the whole village (except the church and vicarage) belonged to the Lulworth Estate. When farming on the Estate was re-organised in the early l970's both farms in the village became redundant and the farmhouses and associated farm buildings were sold off. We bought the house from the estate in 1976.

Our garden and dog styled for a magazine shoot

Proprietors: Rachel & Peter Brachi
West Coombe Farmhouse, Coombe Keynes, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5PS
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