Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Colengaburnam 903 BCS602 14th

• at Colingburne, (of) Collengaburnan 921 14th ib

• (æt) Collinga burnan 931 ib

• Colingeburne 1086 DB 1166,1170 P 1257 Ch

• Colingeburna 1086 ExonDB

• Coleburna 1086 DB

• Collingeburn(e) 1199 FF 1200 Cur

• Kollingeburn(e) 1249 FF

• Colingburn' Comitis 1256 Cl

• Colingeburn Comit. 1291 Tax

• Colyngbourne ducis 1507 NQi

• Colyngborne Duk' 1524 SR

• Collingbourne Duche 1587 NQvii

• Colyngeborn Valence ib.

• Colyngbourn Valaunce 1469 Pat

• Colyngborne strete 1509 DuLa

• Cullingborn 1675 Ogilby

Etymology

Collingbourne was originally the name of the upper part of the Bourne river (v. supra 2). The meaning is probably 'stream of Col (l )a 's people,' v. ing , burna . See also Coldridge infra 344 and cf. Collingtree (PN Nth 145) and Collaton (PN D 307, 527).Comitis and Ducis from the holding of the Earls (later Dukes) of Lancaster (1275 RH); Abbotes from the holding of the Abbot of St Peter's Winchester (DB); Valence from the holding of the family of William de Valence (1253 Cl); Kingston from the King's holding (DB). For strete cf. Hawk Street supra 254.