Place:Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England

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Collingbourne Ducis is a village and civil parish on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Marlborough. It is one of several villages on the River Bourne which is a seasonal river, usually dry in summer. Since 1934 the parish has included the hamlet of Sunton and part of Cadley that were formerly in Collingbourne Kingston.

From the Domesday Book of 1086 we know Earl Harold held the manor, and it had a large settlement of 87 households. In 1256 the village was named Collingbourne Earls after the Lord of the Manor, the Earl of Leicester, who also held neighbouring Everleigh. John of Gaunt inherited the manor, became the Duke of Lancaster, and the village was thus known as "Collingbourne Ducis" or "Collingbourne Dukes".

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.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Collingbourne Ducis.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 11, pp108-115 - Parish: Collingbourne Ducis. British History Online. University of London.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.