The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ingleby, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ingleby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ingleby.

Listed Buildings Near Ingleby

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Ingleby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Wilfrid - 1.15 km

Grade II

Elm Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 0.42 km
Ingleby Cottage - 0.66 km
Anchor Church - 0.74 km
Ash Farmhouse - 0.82 km
St Wilfrids - 1.14 km
The Walnuts - 1.19 km
The Grange - 1.2 km
Barrow Hall Stables - 1.22 km
War Memorial at Twyford Road, Barrow-upon-Trent - 1.24 km
Village School - 1.25 km
Range of Outbuildings to West of Ingleby Toft - 1.29 km
Littlecroft - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ingleby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ingleby:

Twyford henge and Round Hill bowl barrow - 1.54 km

Ingleby Today

Today Ingleby lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 100 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Ingleby on Wikipedia .