OPC Vacancy
Collingbourne Kingston Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Burbage – Chute with Chute Forest – Collingbourne Ducis – Easton Royal – Everley (Everleigh) – Fittleton – Great Bedwyn – Ludgershall – Milton Lilbourne
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Mary
St. Mary’s Church stands at the heart of the village. The present church dates from the Norman period however archaeological excavations during recent building work suggest that there may have been an earlier Saxon church. Prior to 1763, St Mary’s was called St John the Baptist.
St. Mary’s Gallery St. Mary’s Churchyard
St. Mary’s Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1653-1913
Marriages 1654-1986
Burials 1653-1863
Records available from Other Sources
Parish History
The parish includes the tythings of Aughton, Brunton, Collingbourne Sutton, Kingston and Southton (Vallence)
Collingbourne Kingston lies on the A338 ten miles south of Marlborough and twenty miles north of Salisbury. The parish includes the two small hamlets of Aughton and Brunton. Prior to 1934, the hamlets of Sunton and Cadley were also part of Collingbourne Kingston but are now part of neighbouring Collingbourne Ducis. The village is situated along the River Bourne, a chalk stream, which dries up in the summer. It also lies alongside the former Midland and South Western Railway, which closed in 1961.
The population has varied in size from 933 (1841 census) to 397 (1961 census) to 456 in 2001
Twin Towns
Collingbourne and District is twinned with Le Merlerault in Normandy, France. The twinning agreement was made in 1992.
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Pewsey Registration District
April 1936 – Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Agriculture and land
Cattle Plague Regulations 1867
Brunton House
Dr. William Matcham & Joseph Matcham
Conservation
Conservation Area Statement 2003 Conservation Area 2004
Fires
Fires 1800 – Present Fire at Mount Orleans 1858 Three Families Left Homeless After Blaze 1934
Landowners
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1809 Parish Map 1843 1900
Public Houses
Cleaver Inn/The Barleycorn, A338
This building was a large old coaching inn
Railway
Property Sales
Sale of Savernake Estate 1929 Savernake Estate Sold 1929
Crime and Legal Matters
Animal Crime
Assault
Bigamy
Business Related Crime
Bakers Charged with Selling Underweight Bread 1869
Crime Reports
Fraud
Jury Service
Public Order Offences
Summoned for Being Drunk and Disorderly 1867
Theft
Summoned for Stealing Rabbit Traps 1860 Theft from Clothes Line 1862
Transportation
Directories
| Universal British 1793-1798 | Post Office 1855 | Kellys 1867 | Post Office 1875 | Kellys 1889 | Kellys 1903 |
| Kellys 1915 | Post Office Telephone 1940 |
Education
Emigration and Migration
Australia
William Annetts & Family 1857 William Nutley & Family 1856
New Zealand
Thomas & Jane Heath, New Zealand Fencibles 1847-1913
Unites States of America
Emigrant – Thomas Cook & Family, Utah Pioneers 1857-1930
Strays
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834 Aspects of the Life of the Wiltshire Agricultural Labourer c1850
Apprentices
Apprentice records published here may not necessarily mean that the apprentice was from the parish but was apprenticed to a master within the parish.
| George Moore 1713 | Mary Piper 1720 | George Dosell 1722 | Benjamin Lawrence 1722 |
| John Chandler 1725 | William Pyle 1725 | John Fay 1729 | John Rose 1742 |
| Richard Lush 1744 |
Wiltshire Society Apprentices
Henry Annetts 1874 George Mildenhall 1861
Community Services
Police
Metropolitan Police Pension Records
Walter Bailey 1873-1899 James Goddard 1839-1858
Wiltshire Constabulary
Postal Services
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Situation Vacant
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Agricultural Societies
Inaugural Ploughing Match 1848
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Census Returns Transcripts
Coroner Bills
County coroners were introduced in England in around 1194 once established other boroughs and liberties sought the right to have their own coroner. Often in Medieval times the coroner also assumed the role of the sheriff and his duties weren’t limited to holding inquests on dead bodies although almost a full time post they were unpaid for the duties apart from those that were deemed murder or manslaughter when they would receive 13s. 4d. From the 24th June 1752 a law was passed allowing the coroner to claim £1 for every inquest they attended not held in a gaol and also to claim 9d per mile travel allowance from the place of residence. Inquests held in any gaol were performed at a rate totalling no more than £1. These costs were to be paid from the county rates. In cases of homicide the coroner also received the former fee of 13s. 4d. The coroners submitted their bills at the quarter session sittings for approval. Coroners Bills 1752-1796
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Poll Book 1865
Council Elections
County Council Election Notice 1925
MP Nominations
Family Notices
Inquests
Inquest Reports 1800-1849 Inquest Reports 1850-1899 Ann Taplin – Letter from the Vicar 1855
Reports
Thomas Cole 1867 Henry Hayes 1869 John Vaisey 1866 Frederick James Palmer 1874 Vera Shuttle 1907
Taxes
Weddings
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Pewsey Union Supplies Tender Notice 1846 Annual Dinner for the Poor 1853
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Creditors & Debtors Notices for Probate Estates
Parishioners Estate Notices
Parishioners Wills
Daniel Black Proved 1804 Mary Black Proved 1777 Robert Coster Proved 1820 William Seager Proved 1843
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Manoeuvres
Servicemen and Women
WWI
Military Service Exemption Tribunals 1914-1918
British Red Cross/Voluntary Aid Detachment
VAD Record for Blanch Bridgman 1915
War Memorials & Books of Remembrance
War Memorial School War Memorial 1914-1918 Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
