Ingleby is a

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and

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in the

South Derbyshire South Derbyshire is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Derbyshire, England. The district covers the towns of Melbourne, Derbyshire, Melbourne and Swadlincote as well as numerous villages and hamlets such as Hilton, Derbys ...

district, in

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, England, situated to the south of the

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on a rise between

Stanton by Bridge Stanton by Bridge is a village and civil parish in the England, English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 246. Description St Michael's Church, Stanton by Bridge, St Michael's Church is on some of th ...

and

Repton Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote. The population taken at the 2001 census was 2,707, increasing to 2 ...

. In 2001 the parish had a population of 85. It is the location of Anchor Church,Derby City page on the Anchor Church
a small series of caves in the sandstone which were the homes of

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s. The word Ingleby means 'Village of the English'.Tribes of Britain, David Miles, Phoenix Books, 2006, p215 Nearby places include

, Ticknall and the Foremark Reservoir. Ingleby hosts the Ingleby Art Gallery,Ingleby Gallery site/
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History

Vikings erected 59 burial mounds in Heath WoodYork University Site
and the grave goods comprised remnants of swords and wire from Southern Sweden. In 1009 Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Weston on Trent as it was given to his minister,

Morcar Morcar (or Morcere) (, ) (died after 1087) was the son of Ælfgār (earl of Mercia) and brother of Ēadwine. He was the earl of Northumbria from 1065 to 1066, when William the Conqueror replaced him with Copsi. Dispute with the Godwins Morcar ...

. The land was listed as eight hides at Weston upon Trent, and a hide at Morley, Smalley, Ingleby,

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and Kidsley.Charter of Æthelred
The Great Council, 1009, accessed April 2009 In the

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''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.742 Ingleby is mentioned a number of times, for instance "In Ingleby are 3 bovates of land to the geld. Land for 4 oxen. The soke belongs to

. There 3 sokemen have 1 plough and of meadow and there is of water meadow." It is also listed under the lands of Nigel of Stafford along with Foremark, Ticknall and Ravenstone. Anchor Church Caves are beside the Old River Trent; there is a public footpath at the bottom of the crag (or at the top when the river floods in winter). The crag is over 100m long and up to 12m high and in a very attractive setting. The main feature is not the crag at all, but the Hermit's Cave (an

is a hermit). This cave has been cut from the rock (

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conglomerate) and is complete with door openings and window holes; it is very unusual. The cave is very old, being mentioned first in 1648. The Old River Trent has an interesting history. The course of the river was altered artificially so that changed sides. This is commented on in

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's play

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:"Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, :In quantity equals not one of yours: :See how this river comes me cranking in, :And cuts me from the best of all my land :A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out. :I'll have the current in this place damm'd up; :And here the smug and silver Trent shall run :In a new channel, fair and evenly; :It shall not wind with such a deep indent, :To rob me of so rich a bottom here."William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt.I., Act III, Sc. I In 1789, Ingleby consisted of just 26 houses.A View of the Present State of Derbyshire James Pilkington, 1789 In 1827, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M.P. was the Lord of the Manor residing at Foremarke HallDirectory of the County of Derby, Stephen Glover, 1827-29 By 1846 the population had grown to over 150, but the number of dwellings (mostly thatched) had risen only slightly to 28. There is mention at this time of an elm tree which is reputed to have been over 600 years old.History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire, Samuel Bagshaw, 1846 The tree is last mentioned in 1857. In 1891, it was reported that the population in 1881 (the last reported census) was 104. Colonel Sir Francis Burdett was still Lord of the Manor and a school that was named after him ran in the village. Erected in 1835 it had an average attendance off 22 pupils but space for four more.Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p. 209 In 1935 the population was reported as 98Whipple's Directory of Derbyshire, 1935 with the nearest railway station at Chellaston; the nearest

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at Ticknall and the nearest

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at Milton.

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