History
From the Domesday Book we know Earl Harold held the manor, and in 1256 the village was named 'Collingbourne Earls', after the Lord of the Manor, the Earl of Leicester. John of Gaunt inherited the manor, became the Duke of Lancaster, and the village was thus known as Collingbourne Ducis or Dukes.
The architect C.E. Ponting was born in Collingbourne Ducis in 1850. The restoration of St. Andrew's parish church in 1856 by George Edmund Street 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.
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 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' character, Mr. Stevens, in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day.
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