Collingbourne Ducis
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Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in central southern England covering . It is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, with a little in Hampshire. The plain is famous for its rich archaeology, including Stonehenge, one of England's best known...
in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, England
England
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. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne
River Bourne, Wiltshire
The River Bourne is a river in the English county of Wiltshire, and a tributary of the River Avon.The Bourne's source is at the eastern end of the Vale of Pewsey, near the village of Burbage. The river cuts through the chalk escarpment at Collingbourne Kingston, to flow south across Salisbury Plain...
, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.
The United Kingdom Census 2001
United Kingdom Census 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....
recorded a parish population of 849.
Local government
Collingbourne Ducis is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire CouncilWiltshire Council
Wiltshire Council is the unitary authority for most of the county of Wiltshire, in the West of England, the successor authority to Wiltshire County Council and to four districts—Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire—all of which had been created in 1973 and were...
unitary authority
Unitary authority
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, which is responsible for all significant local government
Local government
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functions.
History
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
we know Earl Harold held the manor, and in 1256 the village was named 'Collingbourne Earls', after the Lord of the Manor
Lord of the Manor
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, the Earl of Leicester
Earl of Leicester
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. John of Gaunt inherited the manor, became the Duke of Lancaster
Duke of Lancaster
There were several Dukes of Lancaster in the 14th and early 15th Centuries. See also Duchy of Lancaster.There were three creations of the Dukedom of Lancaster....
, and the village was thus known as Collingbourne Ducis or Dukes.
The architect C.E. Ponting
Charles Ponting
Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.-Career:Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux brewing family's estate from 1870 until 1888...
was born in Collingbourne Ducis in 1850. The restoration
Victorian restoration
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of St. Andrew's parish church in 1856 by George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex.- Life :Street was the third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, by his second wife, Mary Anne Millington. George went to school at Mitcham in about 1830, and later to the Camberwell collegiate school, which he left in 1839...
made a lasting impression on him.
The Bourne Iron Works in the village was established by James Rawlings in the 1860s and made agricultural implements until the outbreak of World War II
World War II
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.
In 1882 the village was connected to the railway network, but lost its rail connection during the reduction of the network in the 1960s when the Beeching report, The Reshaping of British Railways, was implemented.
In 1974 a Saxon
Anglo-Saxons
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cemetery of archeological significance was discovered in Cadley, and in 1998 a Saxon settlement was found in Saunders Meadow during the construction of a housing estate.
Surrounded by agricultural land and army ranges, many of the population now commute to city jobs.
The Post Office at Collingbourne Ducis was mentioned by Sir Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, KBE , best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television...
' character, Mr. Stevens, in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's third published novel. One of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels, the work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989...
.
Population
| No. | Year | Collingbourne Ducis | Wiltshire |
| 1 | 1801 | 457 | 185,107 |
| 2 | 1811 | 501 | 193,828 |
| 3 | 1821 | 476 | 222,157 |
| 4 | 1831 | 458 | 240,156 |
| 5 | 1841 | 518 | 258,733 |
| 6 | 1851 | 536 | 254,221 |
| 7 | 1861 | 564 | 249,311 |
| 8 | 1871 | 485 | 257,177 |
| 9 | 1881 | 426 | 258,965 |
| 10 | 1891 | 344 | 264,997 |
| 11 | 1901 | 344 | 271,394 |
| 12 | 1911 | 385 | 286,822 |
| 13 | 1921 | 366 | 292,208 |
| 14 | 1931 | 367 | 303,373 |
| 15 | 1951 | 544 | 386,692 |
| 16 | 1961 | 584 | 422,950 |
| 17 | 1971 | 590 | 486,747 |
| 18 | 1981 | 766 | 518,545 |
| 19 | 1991 | 802 | 564,471 |
| 20 | 2001 | 849 | 613,024 |
Location
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Sources
- Wiltshire County Council Website page on Collingbourne Ducis, retrieved 18:15 Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)