Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet,[2] and civil parish in Dorset, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Weymouth.

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] 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.

[3] The same incident, differently interpreted, forms the basis of Thomas Hardy's short story, The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion.

[citation needed] The Master and Fellows of Caius College, Cambridge, are the principal landowners.