Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Englebi 1086 DB c1115 LS Hy2 c1170 Dane 1177–8,1191etseqto1211 P 1196 ChancR 1221 Pat

• Engleby 1166 RBE 1209–35 LAHW 1220–34 Welles 1242–3 Fees 1224 ClR 1225,1227 Pat

• Englabi c1115 LS

• Engelbi 1150–60 RAiv c1166 Ais Hy2,lHy2 Dane 1212 Fees

• Engelby c1200 Gilb 1407 FF 1234 Fees 1242–3 FF 1245 RAii 1247–53 FF 1248 Ch 1251 Dugdvi 1271,1283 DC 1293 Ipm 1294 Thurg 1318

• Ingelby 1154–72 Gilb 1407 Cl 1303etfreqto1455

• Englesby Hy2 Ch 1317 France 1168 Pat 1229

• Henhelbi Hy2 Dane

• Anglebi 1205 P

• Angliby 1206 OblR

• Hengelby 1254–9 RAix

• Engilby 1274–5 RH

• Ingylby 1406 Cl 1408 Pap

• Ingilby 1426 Pat 1444,1451 Cl

• Ingulby 1428 FA

• Yngylby 1506–7 Lanc

• Ingleby 1526 Sub 1610 Speed

• Inglebye 1576 Saxton 1583–4 AD

• Hynglebye 1539 LP

• Ingoby 1565 Pat

• Hingleby alias Ingleby 1571 Pat

Etymology

'The village of the English', v. bȳ . DLPN 69 rightly points out that we are concerned with an isolated village of Englishmen in an area largely populated by Danes, but takes the first el. to be OE  Engla, gen.pl. of OE  Engle m.pl. 'the English'. We can assume that the people who coined the name spoke Old Danish rather than the Anglian dialect spoken by the English population of the region and it would therefore seem more logical to assume that we are concerned here with an ODan  *Englabȳ 'the village of the English', as was suggested by Eilert Ekwall, 'Tribal names in English place-names', Namn och Bygd 41 (1953), 129–77, at 140 (see also DEPN, s.n. Ingleby). Note also that Ingleby occurs in Db and three times in YN (DEPN; Ekwall, 'Tribal names' 140; PN Db 639).