Collingbourne Kingston
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Collingbourne Kingston is a village and civil parish about 8 miles (12.9 km) south of the market town
of Marlborough in Wiltshire
, England
. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne
, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.
The toponym
Collingbourne meanes the Bourne as the stream of Cola's people. Collingbourne Kingston was so named to distinguish it from its southerly neighbour Collingbourne Ducis
. Until the 14th century Collingbourne Kingston was called Collingbourne Abbot's: with reference to Hyde Abbey
, Winchester
, the owner of the principal manor. The change to Kingston was a reference to the appearance of Collingbourne in the Domesday Book
.
, Brunton
, and Sunton, and part of Cadley hamlet. In 1934 Sunton and the part of Cadley were transferred to Collingbourne Ducis and in 1987 it was further reduced when its south-east and south-west parts were also transferred to Collingbourne Ducis.
Collingbourne Kingston is part of the Tidworth Community Area.
The A338 trunk road
runs through Collingbourne Kingston.
and Burbage
. The nearest supermarkets are in Ludgershall
, Tidworth
and Pewsey
.
The village has a public house. It is now called the Barleycorn Inn but was previously the Kingston Hotel and The Cleaver. A former public house called the Windmill Inn is now a private house.
.
Children of secondary school age are able to attend Pewsey Vale School
, Castledown School in Ludgershall
and St John's School and Community College
in Marlborough.
of Saint Mary
is in the centre of the village. In 1344 its dedicatee was Saint John the Baptist
but by 1763 it was dedicated to St. Mary. In 1862 it was altered and extensively restored
by John Colson. It is an 11th century Norman
building and there is a possibility that it stands on the site of an earlier Saxon
church. The oldest features of the church are the round Norman pillars in the nave. Each has a different capital, one with a lady facing the south door. There are four arches to the southern arcade, but only three to the northern one.
The 13th and 14th centuries gave the Church its ornate chancel arch, with four depths of moulded spandrel
s and foliage capitals set on Purbeck marble
piers. An engraving of the church in 1806 shows the original lower ridge of the nave roof, giving a better proportion to its relationship with the fine tower with its carved pinnacles and strange gargoyle
s. At that time there were only four round clerestory
windows on each side of the north and south walls of the nave. In the 1860s the roof was raised and the clerestory windows increased to six on each side.
The Conacher
two manual, 1210 pipe organ
came from the parish church of Lavenham
, Suffolk
in 1997. It was blessed by the Bishop of Salisbury
who then played a piece by Bach
on it.
Two recent windows are the Wilson Memorial window on the north side of the chancel, and the tiny Ruth Fisher window in the vestry. The huge canopied Pile family tomb stands to the right of the altar, and therein lie Gabriel Pile who died in 1626, and his wife Anne.
St. Mary’s ring
of six bells is amongst the finest in England and is played regularly by the local team of bellringers. The old second bell stands in retirement in the south aisle.
Further south in the village is a Methodist
chapel built in 1914 to replace an earlier chapel built in 1819. The chapel was sold as a private home in 1987.
Collingbourne and District are twinned with Le Merlerault
, Normandy
in France
. The twinning agreement was made on 18 April 1992.
on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway
. The station opened in 1932 on a line that had been open since 1882 and closed to passengers in 1961.
Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...
of Marlborough 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
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. 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 toponym
Toponymy
Toponymy is the scientific study of place names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos and ónoma . Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds...
Collingbourne meanes the Bourne as the stream of Cola's people. Collingbourne Kingston was so named to distinguish it from its southerly neighbour Collingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 849....
. Until the 14th century Collingbourne Kingston was called Collingbourne Abbot's: with reference to Hyde Abbey
Hyde Abbey
Hyde Abbey was a medieval Benedictine monastery just outside the walls of Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was dissolved and demolished in 1538....
, Winchester
Winchester
Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...
, the owner of the principal manor. The change to Kingston was a reference to the appearance of Collingbourne in the Domesday Book
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...
.
Local government
The civil parish originally contained Collingbourne Kingston, AughtonAughton, Wiltshire
Aughton is a small hamlet adjacent to the village of Collingbourne Kingston in Wiltshire.-External links:*...
, Brunton
Brunton
Brunton can refer to several places in the United Kingdom, among them:*Brunton, Fife, Scotland*Brunton, Northumberland, England *Low Brunton, Northumberland, England *Brunton, Wiltshire, England...
, and Sunton, and part of Cadley hamlet. In 1934 Sunton and the part of Cadley were transferred to Collingbourne Ducis and in 1987 it was further reduced when its south-east and south-west parts were also transferred to Collingbourne Ducis.
Collingbourne Kingston is part of the Tidworth Community Area.
Location
Position:The A338 trunk road
A338 road
The A338 is a major trunk road in southern England, that runs from the junction with the A35 at Bournemouth in Dorset to the junction with the A420 at Besselsleigh in Oxfordshire, roughly long.-Route:...
runs through Collingbourne Kingston.
Population
| No. | Year | Collingbourne Kingston | Wiltshire |
| 1 | 1801 | 731 | 185,107 |
| 2 | 1811 | 746 | 193,828 |
| 3 | 1821 | 817 | 222,157 |
| 4 | 1831 | 913 | 240,156 |
| 5 | 1841 | 933 | 258,733 |
| 6 | 1851 | 922 | 254,221 |
| 7 | 1861 | 903 | 249,311 |
| 8 | 1871 | 841 | 257,177 |
| 9 | 1881 | 696 | 258,965 |
| 10 | 1891 | 739 | 264,997 |
| 11 | 1901 | 744 | 271,394 |
| 12 | 1911 | 748 | 286,822 |
| 13 | 1921 | 669 | 292,208 |
| 14 | 1931 | 585 | 303,373 |
| 15 | 1951 | 440 | 386,692 |
| 16 | 1961 | 397 | 422,950 |
| 17 | 1971 | 410 | 486,747 |
| 18 | 1981 | 441 | 518,545 |
| 19 | 1991 | 454 | 564,471 |
| 20 | 2001 | 456 | 613,024 |
Amenities
The village has a petrol station with garage and small shop open Monday to Saturday. There is no post office in the village. The nearest post offices are in Collingbourne DucisCollingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 849....
and Burbage
Burbage, Wiltshire
Burbage is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. It is about south of Marlborough and west of Newbury.-Local government:...
. The nearest supermarkets are in Ludgershall
Ludgershall
Ludgershall is the name of more than one place. The name is Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning 'nook with a trapping spear'.In the United Kingdom:*Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire*Ludgershall, WiltshireAlso...
, Tidworth
Tidworth
Tidworth is a town in south-east Wiltshire, England with a growing civilian population. Situated at the eastern edge of Salisbury Plain, it is approximately 10 miles west of Andover, 12 miles south of Marlborough, 24 miles south of Swindon, 15 miles north by north-east of Salisbury and 6 miles east...
and Pewsey
Pewsey
Pewsey is a large village, often considered a small town, at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire about west of London. It is well connected to London, the West Country and Wales being close to the M4 motorway and the A303. Also, the village is served by Pewsey railway station on the...
.
The village has a public house. It is now called the Barleycorn Inn but was previously the Kingston Hotel and The Cleaver. A former public house called the Windmill Inn is now a private house.
Education
The original school, now a bed and breakfast establishment called "The Old School House" was opened in 1845 and served the children of the local farmworkers and craftsmen. It was ahead of its time as universal education was not introduced until thirty years later. The village school closed in 1978 and the primary age children now attend the newly-built school in neighbouring Collingbourne DucisCollingbourne Ducis
Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne, which is a seasonal river usually dry in summer.The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 849....
.
Children of secondary school age are able to attend Pewsey Vale School
Pewsey Vale School
Pewsey Vale School is a small, mixed comprehensive school located in Pewsey, Wiltshire for children aged 11–16. It currently has around 386 pupils on its roll. The school holds specialist Arts College status....
, Castledown School in Ludgershall
Ludgershall
Ludgershall is the name of more than one place. The name is Anglo Saxon in origin, meaning 'nook with a trapping spear'.In the United Kingdom:*Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire*Ludgershall, WiltshireAlso...
and St John's School and Community College
St John's School and Community College
St John's School and Community College is an age 11–18 mixed comprehensive school in the town of Marlborough, Wiltshire in England.-Admissions:...
in Marlborough.
Church and chapel
The Church of England parish churchChurch of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, known as a parish.-Parishes in England:...
of Saint Mary
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...
is in the centre of the village. In 1344 its dedicatee was Saint John the Baptist
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
but by 1763 it was dedicated to St. Mary. In 1862 it was altered and extensively restored
Victorian restoration
Victorian restoration is the term commonly used to refer to the widespread and extensive refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria...
by John Colson. It is an 11th century Norman
Norman architecture
About|Romanesque architecture, primarily English|other buildings in Normandy|Architecture of Normandy.File:Durham Cathedral. Nave by James Valentine c.1890.jpg|thumb|200px|The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the...
building and there is a possibility that it stands on the site of an earlier Saxon
Anglo-Saxon architecture
Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing...
church. The oldest features of the church are the round Norman pillars in the nave. Each has a different capital, one with a lady facing the south door. There are four arches to the southern arcade, but only three to the northern one.
The 13th and 14th centuries gave the Church its ornate chancel arch, with four depths of moulded spandrel
Spandrel
A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure....
s and foliage capitals set on Purbeck marble
Purbeck Marble
Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone quarried in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England.It is one of many kinds of Purbeck Limestone, deposited in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods....
piers. An engraving of the church in 1806 shows the original lower ridge of the nave roof, giving a better proportion to its relationship with the fine tower with its carved pinnacles and strange gargoyle
Gargoyle
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between...
s. At that time there were only four round clerestory
Clerestory
Clerestory is an architectural term that historically denoted an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows. In modern usage, clerestory refers to any high windows...
windows on each side of the north and south walls of the nave. In the 1860s the roof was raised and the clerestory windows increased to six on each side.
The Conacher
Conacher
Conacher is a surname of Scottish origin. The name refers to:*Brian Conacher , Canadian professional ice hockey player*Charlie Conacher , Canadian professional ice hockey player...
two manual, 1210 pipe organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
came from the parish church of Lavenham
Lavenham
Lavenham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is noted for its 15th century church, half-timbered medieval cottages and circular walk. In the medieval period it was among the 20 wealthiest settlements in England...
, Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
in 1997. It was blessed by the Bishop of Salisbury
David Stancliffe
David Staffurth Stancliffe was the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury from 1993 to 2010.Stancliffe was consecrated as the 77th Bishop of Salisbury at Westminster Abbey on 30 November 1993 and enthroned in Salisbury Cathedral on 9 December 1993, having previously been Provost of Portsmouth for 11 years...
who then played a piece by Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
on it.
Two recent windows are the Wilson Memorial window on the north side of the chancel, and the tiny Ruth Fisher window in the vestry. The huge canopied Pile family tomb stands to the right of the altar, and therein lie Gabriel Pile who died in 1626, and his wife Anne.
St. Mary’s ring
Change ringing
Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes". It differs from many other forms of campanology in that no attempt is made to produce a conventional melody....
of six bells is amongst the finest in England and is played regularly by the local team of bellringers. The old second bell stands in retirement in the south aisle.
Further south in the village is a Methodist
Methodist Church of Great Britain
The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...
chapel built in 1914 to replace an earlier chapel built in 1819. The chapel was sold as a private home in 1987.
Twinning Association
Collingbourne and District are twinned with Le MerleraultLe Merlerault
Le Merlerault is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.-Heraldry:...
, Normandy
Normandy
Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The twinning agreement was made on 18 April 1992.
Air crash and railway
In 1943 a female pilot apparently crashed into the roof of No 54 The High Street taking off its thatched roof. This house also served as the ticket office for the Collingbourne Kingston Halt railway stationCollingbourne Kingston Halt railway station
Collingbourne Kingston Halt was a small railway station that served the village of Collingbourne Kingston in Wiltshire, England for less than 30 years...
on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway
Midland and South Western Junction Railway
The Midland and South Western Junction Railway was, until the 1923 Grouping, an independent railway built to form a north-south link between the Midland and London and South Western Railways allowing the Midland and other companies' trains to reach the port of Southampton.-Formation:The M&SWJR...
. The station opened in 1932 on a line that had been open since 1882 and closed to passengers in 1961.
Sources
- Wiltshire County Council Website page on Collingbourne Kingston, retrieved 20:00 Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)