English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Ingleigh Green

Early-attested site in the Parish of Broadwood Kelly

Historical Forms

  • Genelie 1086 DB
  • Geneleye 1263 Ipm
  • Jonelegh 1242 Fees788
  • Inneleghe 1295 Ipm
  • Yn(n)elegh 1303,1346 FA
  • Yennelegh 1326 FF
  • Indeley t.Eliz ChancP

Etymology

Blomé (140) is possibly right in taking the first element here to be a pers. name Gēana , but the phonology of the later forms is difficult. v. leah .