| Summary : Probable Medieval settlement (hollow ways, tofts, platform, mound, chapel, moat, fishponds, crofts and ridge and furrow) seen as earthworks. Medieval and Post Medieval, Deer park pale seen as earthworks. |
More information : [SK 8925 7785] Moat [GT]. (1)
The earthworks associated with this moat are typical of a
deserted village. There is a foundation of one building,
probably a church or chapel.
In the parish church at Saxilby is a list of incumbents at
Ingleby from Domesday until the last listed at 1416.
Set in a wall within the farmhouse is what was probably a Holy
water stoop, which according to a 19 C. inscription was
excavated from the site.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (2)
Contains reference to "Ingleby (High and Low or North and
South)" and notes 18 persons and a priest. (3)
Ingleby - An Anglian Settlement. (4)
The earthworks of North Ingleby can be divided crudely into
two groups, namely village remains and the site of the moated
manor and its appurtenances. The latter occupy the whole area E
of the N-S through road and N of the straight ditched boundary
(`a'-`b' on plan) that appears to have been strongly embanked on
its N side.
The manorial complex is centred on a moated enclosure still
occupied by Ingleby Hall Farm, its ditch on the surviving S side
up to 2.5m deep. Its overall shape in plan is now lost because
it is infilled and built over on the N, but the extant portion is
polygonal or curving in form, though rather mutilated. On its W
side lie a chain of fishponds - `c',`d',`e' on plan - of which
`c' is little more than 0.5-0.75m deep, while 'e' is cut up to
2.5m into the slope. Though the links have been obscured by the
driveways to the farm, they appear to have been interconnected
and linked with the moat, and there survives an inlet leat at the
N end of `c' and a dam and outlet at the S end of `e'. To the E
of the moat, `f' may also have served as a long shallow fishpond,
with a dam at its E end. It divides 3 large manorial paddocks
on the S side, that contain faint traces of ridge-and-furrow and
no signs of buildings or yards of a village type, from a small
park to the N. This park is bounded by a bank for a pale that
runs N from `a', where it is particularly well preserved in a
belt of trees, alongside the modern road for 350m before it turns
to encompass a field of 4.693ha (11.59 acres) and return to the N
side of `f'. `A close called the park' is recorded in 1454 when
Sir John Gray let to farm his manor of North Ingleby with its
gardens and orchards; in 1569-70 there was `the deer park', and
in 1649-50 a close of 9 acres called `The Park or The Deer Park'.
The park contains a block of ridge-and-furrow. (5-7)
SK 8927 7767. Deserted village of North Ingleby. Scheduled no.
LI/163. (8)
The Medieval settlement referred to by the previous authorities has
been mapped at 1:10,000 scale from air photographs. (9) |