Ingworth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Ingworth
Historical Forms
- Ingewrda, Inghewurda 1086 DB
- Ingewrde 1140–53 Holme
- Ingerworth 1199 Cur 1207 Abbr
- Ingeworth 1207,1317 FF 1242 P 1262 Ipm 1275 RH 1302 FA 1321 Ch 1379,1391 Pat 1444 Past
- Ingewrth 1209,1250 Ass
- Ingewrthe 1242–3 Fees 1257 Ass 1285 FF
- Ingeworthe 1250,1286 Ass 1384 Pat
- Yngewrthe 1258 Pat
- Inggeworth 1320 BM
- Ingewurthe 1219 FF 1269 Ass
- Ingewurth 1226–8 Fees 1261 Pat
- Iggewurdh 1230 P
- Yngewurth 1247 Pat
- Ingwrthe 1256 Ipm 1269 Ass
- Ingwrth 1263 Cl
- Ingworth 1275 RH 1314 Ipm 1321 Ipm 1346,1401–2,1428 FA 1359 Pat 1286 Ass 1316 FA
- Ingworthe 1548 Pat
Etymology
The first element is usually taken to be the pers.n. Inga , which is poorly evidenced in Old English, but which can be assumed to have existed as a short form of compound names beginning with Ing -, for instance Inguburg and Ingweald . In the composition-joint the great majority of the old spellings for Ingworth show a medial -e -, which we assume is what remains of the old genitive ending -an in Ingan - (v. Sandred 1987: 231 ff.).