COLEMORE, or Colmer, a parish in Petersfield district, Hants; near Wolmere forest, 5¼ miles S by W of Alton r. station. Post town, Newton-Vallance, under Alton. Acres, 1, 485. Real property, £1, 049. Pop., 151. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The surface is hilly, and commands extensive views. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Priors-Dean, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £550.* Patron, Mrs. Hervey. The church is good. The learned Greaves was a native; and his father was rector.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))