Ingleby

Ingleby, Lincolnshire

Ingleby, historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, takes its name from the Old English ethnonym Engle ‘the Angles, later the English’ and Old Norse by ‘a farmstead, a village’. There is also an Ingleby in Derbyshire, close to the Viking winter camp at Repton, and the site of a unique Viking Age cremation cemetery.

The exact implications of such a name are not yet fully understood and are the subject of ongoing work by Dr Jayne Carroll of the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham.

Ingleby in Lincolnshire is now a joint parish with Saxilby.

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Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

Derbyshire, ethnonym, hybrid name, Lincolnshire, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Jayne Carroll, forthcoming.

Kenneth Cameron, A Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (1998), p. 69.