Ingham, Norfolk
| Ingham | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Ingham Village Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG390260 |
| Location: | 52°46’44"N, 1°32’38"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 362 (2021) |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR12 |
| Dialling code: | 01692 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Norfolk |
Ingham is a village in Norfolk, in the Norfolk Broads seven miles south-east of North Walsham and fifteen miles north-east of Norwich.
The wider civil parish includes a hamlet, Calthorpe Street. The 2021 Census recorded this parish's population as 362.
History
Ingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Inga's homestead, possibly linked to the Germanic Ingaevones tribe.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Ingham is listed as a settlement of 45 households and divided between the East Anglian estates of Count Alan of Brittany and St Benet's Abbey.[2]
The Lordship of Ingham was possessed at a very early date by the Ingham family. An Oliver de Ingham was living in 1183 and a John de Ingham is known to have been Lord in the reign of Richard I. The great-grandson of John, the distinguished Oliver Ingham lived here and his son-in-law Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorkshire, inherited jure uxoris.[3]
Ingham Old Hall has its origins in the Middle Ages, having been built around 1320.[4] In the 14th century the Hall was inhabited by the local Lord of the Manor, Sir Miles Stapleton, whose tomb stands in Ingham's Holy Trinity Church alongside that of his father in law, Sir Oliver de Ingham.[5]
Holy Trinity Church
Ingham's parish church, Holy Trinity, which stands on Mill Road, was built the 1340s by Sir Oliver Ingham and later attached to a Trinitarian Priory from the 1360s, built by Sir Miles Stapleton. The church is a Grade I listed building.[6]
Holy Trinity holds several carved stone memorials to Sir Oliver Ingham and Sir Roger de Bois with his wife Lady Margaret.[7]
Amenities
The village has one public house, The Ingham Swan. The original building was built in the 14th century and was part of Ingham Priory until its destruction under Henry VIII in the 16th century. In Spring 2010 it was renamed The Ingham Swan to avoid confusion with The Swan in nearby Stalham. The building has had much interior renovation.
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References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Ingham.
- ↑ Ingham, Norfolk in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Neale, John Preston; Keux, John Le (1824) (in en). Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain: Including Screens, Fonts, Monuments, &c., &c. with Historical and Architectural Descriptions. For the proprietors by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. https://books.google.com/books?id=gtoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17-IA28.
- ↑ "Ingham Old Hall". https://inghamoldhall.co.uk/history.html.
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingham/ingham.htm.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1049353: Church of the Holy Trinity (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/ingham/ingham.htm.