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.

Ingrave

Major Settlement in the Parish of Ingrave

Historical Forms

  • Ingā, Ingam 1086 DB
  • Ginge, Gynge Rad'i 1248 Ass
  • Gynge Rauf(e) 1276 FF
  • Suth Gynge 1286 ib
  • Gynge Radulphi 1322 Londin
  • Gyngerolf 1331 Ipm
  • Gynge Raaf 1398 IpmR
  • Jynge Rauf 1332 Ipm
  • Ingerauf 1363 Pat
  • Ingrave 1476 IpmR
  • Ingraff 1543 FF
  • Yengrauf 1436 Pat
  • Inkepeter 1553 Ct

Etymology

For Ginge , v. Margaretting infra 258. Suth because the most southerly of this group of names. -rave from Ralf son of Turold of Rochester, the Domesday tenant, -peter from Sir William Petre (d. 1571), whose family still holds land here.

Places in the same Parish