Ingleby Barwick

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Ingleby Barwick
Yorkshire
North Riding
Location
Grid reference: NZ445140
Location: 54°31’8"N, 1°18’40"W
Data
Population: 19,600
Post town: Stockton-on-Tees
Postcode: TS17
Dialling code: 01642
Local Government
Council: Stockton-on-Tees
Parliamentary
constituency: 		Stockton South
Website: Community website

Ingleby Barwick is a new-built town in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It has some ancient roots but Ingleby Barwick as it stands was created from scratch from the 1970s as a private residential estate; once the biggest in Britain and bigger than any in Europe. The estate was officially opened in 1981 by the mayor of Langbaurgh. It has since then been gaining the attributes of a town, including a town council.

The town is built on what was the southern perimeter of Thornaby airfield, beside the River Tees, which is the border with County Durham.

Ingleby Barwick is almost entirely surrounded by small rivers or streams. It is bordered by the Leven to the West, the Tees to the north, and Bassleton Beck to the east.

Name

The name Ingleby Barwick long pre-dates the creation of the town. It is derived from both Viking and Saxon place names. Ingleby is derived from Old Norse]] Englar by and means "Farmstead (or village) of the Englishmen'" and "Barwick" is Old English, whether from bere wic ("Barley Village") or Bur wic ("Farmer Village").

It seems uncertain, but Ingleby and Barwick may have been two separate places until the 17th century.

About the town

Ingleby Barwick is a town with a fine array of local amenities. It has six primary schools, three public houses, two churches, a 9-hole golf course and a good range of local shops, amongst its various areas, known as the "villages". It has a community centre in Beckfields and a whole "Community Campus" containing the secondary school and library. By the supermarket is a health club.

Churches

Layout

A plan of Ingleby Barwick

Ingleby Barwick consists largely of owner-occupied properties, along with a small number of purpose built rental properties.

The estate is divided into six "villages" named:

  • Lowfields
  • Beckfields
  • Sober Hall
  • Round Hill
  • Broom Hill
  • The Rings (under construction as at January 2012)

Romano Park

Romano Park is on the land between Tesco and Barley Field primary school. The building of a play area for children under 14 years started in January 2009. Despite construction work being completed on time the official opening was delayed from the original date of July 2009.

The adjacent Multi-Use Sports Area has already been opened to the public, allowing people of all ages to play various sports, including football, basketball & tennis, but has, alas, become a magnet for anti-social behaviour as is found even in the pleasantest places.[1]

History

Although the development of Ingleby Barwick, as the housing estate which is present today, did not start until the late 1970s, the land has been occupied for thousands of years.

Early traces

There are traces of the hand of man from as far back as the Stone Age. Work at Quarry farm has discovered prolific concentrations of multi period flintwork along the South Bank of the River Tees in this area.[2] Traces of Iron Age field patterns were discovered, also at Quarry Farm.

In an excavation in the Windmills Fields area at the end of 1996, five individual burials were found along with a wooden cist, these finds were accompanied by objects containing stone, jet and copper alloy of high status. This site was considered of European significance as it threw new light on the settlement of the area in the Bronze Age and highlighted a change in tradition of burial traditions and trade networks at this time.[3]

Roman settlement is also apparent in the town and a Roman Villa circa 200 AD, perhaps the most northerly in Britain, was excavated in part. This has been preserved as a grassed area in The Forum area of Ingleby Barwick.[4]

Middle Ages

After the Norman invasion, the Manor of Barwick was given to Robert Malet the son of William Malet, King William's great chamberlain. In the 13th century the land was owned by the Priors of Guisborough & Jervaulx until the dissolution of monasteries.

Between the 14th and 16th centuries landowners included the Percys, Earls of Northumberland, and the Parrs of Nottingham.

Early Modern history

Ingleby and Barwick may have been two separate places until the 17th century.

In the 17th century the Manor of Barwick was sold to Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica and then to Sir William Turner of Kirkleatham. The land remaining in the ownership of the Turner's, with profits from the land used to support the free school and hospital at Kirkleatham, until it was sold in the 19th century.

Ingleby Barwick is listed as being a township in the parish of Stainton in 1887.[5][6] Its population was given as 132. During this time the land was sold off by the Turner estate.

During the Second World War, Ingleby Barwick stood near to the south-western perimeter of Thornaby Airfield and, a number of aircraft crashed where Ingleby Barwick housing estate now stands:

  • On 11 June 1940, a Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson crashed at Quarry Farm killing the four crew after the bomb load exploded on crashing.[7]
  • On 28 April 1941, a Bristol Blenheim crashed at Barwick Lane killing all three crew.[7]
  • On 18 December 1941, a Lockheed Hudson stalled soon after take off and crashed into Quarry Farm killing the five crew and four civilians.[7]
  • On 4 September 1942, a Lockheed Hudson crashed at Myton House Farm killing the four crew.[7]
  • On 11 November 1943 a Photo Reconnaissance de Havilland Mosquito which was attempting to land at Thornaby on one engine and crashed into land which is now home to Ingleby Mill School, killing both crew members, there is now a stone marking the crash site.[7][8][9]

Creation of a new town

In 1969 Yarmside Holdings bought land for housing and the first houses were built at Lowfields in the late 1970s.

Since then there has been a major undertaking to build new housing and at one time Ingleby Barwick was reputed to be the largest private housing estate in Europe.

People

The United Kingdom Census 2001 found Ingleby Barwick had 5,862 households and a population of 16,280. Ethnic diversity is minimal in Ingleby Barwick; over 95% of residents class themselves as White British. The population in 2001 was generally younger than in Stockton-On-Tees with a mean age of 31.87 highlighting the high proportion of families with children in the town.

Continued development of the area means the population of the town is expanding dramatically. The most recent estimates put the population of Ingleby Barwick at 21,860 in 2010.[10]

Year 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 2001
Population 132 115 124 147 118 133 141 113 16,280
Historical population of Ingleby Barwick
Source:[11]

Outside links

References

  1. ↑ Ingleby Barwick Councillors Comments, Gossip Magazine, 31 July 2009
  2. ↑ Archaeological Services. 1997. Ingleby Barwick Villages 5 and 6. Land near Quarry Farm and Barwick Farm: An Archaeological Evaluation. University of Durham. Unpublished Report.
  3. ↑ Early Bronze Age burials at Windmill Fields, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton on Tees - Tees Archaeology
  4. ↑ Roman Booklet – Tees Archaeology
  5. ↑ John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
  6. ↑ A Vision of Britain through time. Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ingleby Barwick
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Yorkshire Aircraft
  8. ↑ Hidden Teesside
  9. ↑ Doris Perley. Ingleby Barwick, the new settlement.
  10. ↑ http://www.teesvalleyunlimited.gov.uk/
  11. ↑ A Vision of Britain Through Time. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10437544&c_id=10001043&add=N
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