Saint-Inglevert (; vls, Santingeveld) is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
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in the
Hauts-de-France
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The etymology of Saint-Inglevert, first attested as ''Sontingeveld'' in 1140, is now generally agreed to derive from a Common Germanic anthroponym ''*Sondo'', followed by ''-ingen'' "people of" (see nearby e.g.
Tardinghen
Tardinghen (; vls, Terdingem; pcd, Tardinghin) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Toponymy
Common to many French locales especially in the north, the etymology of Tardinghen is ultimately bas ...
) + ''-veld'' "field". The name was no longer understood sometime in the late Early Middle Ages, leading to a popular re-interpretation of the first syllable, ''"sant-ingheveld"''. This led to a
folk etymology
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of prefixed ''saint'' (as is very common in toponymy across France), thus shaping ''Saint Inglevert''. Thus the meaning is, "the field of the people of ''Sondo''".
Despite old local veneration, if there ever truly was a "Saint Inglevert" which perhaps influenced the name, the holy figure is unknown and lost to time.
Geography
Saint-Inglevert is situated some north of Boulogne, at the junction of the D244 road with the A16 autoroute.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Barnabé dating from the sixteenth century.
* Traces of an old abbey-hospital.
* Saint-Inglevert Airfield