Inglesbatch

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Inglesbatch
Somerset

Inglesbatch from Stitchings Lane
Location
Grid reference: ST704613
Location: 51°21’1"N, 2°25’37"E
Data
Post town: Bath
Postcode: BA2
Local Government
Council: Bath & NE Somerset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North East Somerset

Inglesbatch is a small hamlet near Englishcombe in northerm Somerset. Its nearest town is Bath, which lies approximately four miles north-east of the hamlet. Inglesbatch Farm has an acreage of over 1,000 acres.

History

Inglesbatch, like the neighbouring Englishcombe, probably derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon personal name "Ingwald", as in Ingwald's batch,[1] with batch possibly denoting a hillock[2] or stream or valley.[3]

The earliest record of a settlement at Inglesbatch was recorded in 1290.[4] In 1530 there is reference to the village having its own manor, but by 1611 it appears to have been subsumed into the lands of Englishcombe Manor.[5]

Buildings

The converted chapel

Allandale is a detached house built in the early 19th century.[6] Home Farmhouse is slightly later having been built in the mid-19th century.[7] Both are Grade II listed buildings.

A Baptist chapel was built in the village in 1813,[8] and has now been converted into a private dwelling.

References

  1. Hill, James (1914), "Full text of 'The place-names of Somerset'", archive.org, https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028058208/cu31924028058208_djvu.txt, retrieved 6 March 2011 
  2. Mills, Anthony David (1977). The place-names of Dorset. pp. 249. ISBN 9780904889024. https://books.google.com/?id=z_nkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22batch%22+in+place-names&dq=%22batch%22+in+place-names. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
  3. Reaney, Percy Hide (1967). The origin of English surnames. Routledge & K. Paul. https://archive.org/details/originofenglishs0000rean. Retrieved 6 March 2011. "origin of place names batch stream." 
  4. Historic Survey of the Manor of Englishcombe, Avon County Planning Department, 1983, pp. 9, ISBN 0-86063-190-7, http://www.englishcombe.net/pdf/landscape%20survey.pdf 
  5. Historic Survey of the Manor of Englishcombe, Avon County Planning Department, 1983, pp. 11, ISBN 0-86063-190-7, http://www.englishcombe.net/pdf/landscape%20survey.pdf 
  6. National Heritage List 1129448: Allandale
  7. National Heritage List 1136123: Home Farmhouse
  8. Manco, Jean (1995), The Parish of Englishcombe: A History, Englishcombe Parish Council, p. 22, ISBN 0-9527275-0-1, http://www.englishcombe.net/pdf/englishcombe%20history%20-%20manco.pdf