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Culbone
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English
Proper noun
en hamlet par/Oare co/Somerset cc/England previously in dist/Somerset West and Taunton OS grid ref SS8448.
en 1980 AA Book of English Villages Drive Publications Ltd 302, about Oare There is a local rhyme which says:Culbone, Oare and Stoke PeroAre three such places as you seldom hear o'.Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it.