Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Inglestune 1086 DB

• Ingelton 1202–8 Ass 1204 Furn 1214 Abbr 1246 Ass22d 1346 Furn

• Ingelton in Lonesdale 1303 Furn

• Ingilton 1235,1240 FF 1343 Furn

• Ingleton 1303 Aid 1379 PT 1655 WillS

Etymology

Moorman has suggested that the first el. of Ingleton and Ingleborough is OE  Ingeld (influenced by ON  Ingjaldr ) or even the ON pers.n. itself. There seems, however, as Ekwall has pointed out, to have been an OE word ing 'hill, peak' which is to be assumed to explain a series of difficult p.ns., Ingleton and Ingleborough (infra ), Ingon (Wa 233), Inglewood and Inkpen (Brk), possibly Inghoe (Nb 122) and Ingleton (Du 122), and a lost Ingle (i, 275 supra ). In most of these names the sense 'peak' is topographically appropriate, but with only the p.n. evidence it is difficult to establish the word ing , since apart from Greek ϵyγχóς 'lance' (for which it would be a regular phonological equivalent) it appears to have no cognates in English or any other language. The original form of the first el. in Ingleton and Ingleborough (as well as Inglewood Brk) could be an OE  compound ing-hyll 'peak hill' or a derivative ingel with some similar meaning.Ingleborough is one of the highest mountains in Yorkshire, whilst Ingleton is a village at its foot. Ingleton would mean 'farmstead near the hill called Ing-hyll or Ingel ', v. tūn .