COLEMORE, a parish in the hundred of BARTON-STACEY, Andover division, though locally in the hundred of Selborne, Alton (North) division, of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Alton, containing 123 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £22. 9. 4., and in the patronage of the Rev. James Cookson. There is a chapel of ease at Prior's Dean. The greater part of this parish lay formerly in the forest of Wolmer, where a considerable quantity of charcoal was made; and from the mere, or boundary, to the westward, it had its former name, Colemere, by which it is noticed in Domesday-book and other ancient records. John Graves, the astronomer and mathematician, was born here, in 1602.