Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire.

 

This is plan number 25 from a series of 60 which mapped the proposed railway from Southampton to Cheltenham.

 

Some of the features shown include the settlement of Collingbourn Kingston itself (1846 spelling) with individual dwellings, the church, various Turnpike Roads to and from Andover, Marlborough & Shalbourn, water courses, & field and parish boundaries. Part of the map is in the Tithing of Kingston and part in the Tithing of Brunton.

 

 

The plots of land adjacent to the proposed railway are numbered and also supplied with the print will be a copy of the relevant pages from a directory which accompanies the original plan. For each numbered plot this gives details of the property, its ownership, lessee and occupier. For example Plot 121 is described as, "Cottage and Gardens" owned by The Marquess of Ailesbury and his Trustees and occupied by Thomas Heath.

 

The plan thus provides details of the social history of the location, and who lived around Collingbourne Kingston, over 160 years ago.

 

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