Ingham is a small village and

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in the

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. It lies close to the village of

Stalham Stalham is a market town and civil parish on the River Ant in the English county of Norfolk, in East Anglia. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 1,333 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 3,149 at the 20 ...

, and is about from Sea Palling on the

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coast.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads''. . The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 376 in 153 households, falling slightly to 374 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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of North Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. There are the remains of a

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and the Ingham

Poor's Allotment Poor's Allotment () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, SSSI notification, notified in 1954. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). The site is now part of ...

History

Ingham is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...

of 1086 as the village of Hincham in the hundred of Happing. Possible etymologies are "homestead or village of man calledInga" or "home of the Inguiones" (an ancient

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). The Lordship of Ingham was possessed at a very early date by the Ingham family. An Oliver de Ingham was living in 1183 and a John de Ingham is known to have been Lord in the reign of

Richard I Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...

. The great grandson of John, the distinguished

Oliver Ingham Sir Oliver Ingham (about 1287–1344) was an English knight and landowner who served as a soldier and administrator under King Edward II of England and his successor, King Edward III. He was responsible for the civil government and military defence ...

lived here and his son-in-law

Miles Stapleton Sir Miles Stapleton, KG (c. 1408 – 1 October 1466) was Lord of the Manor of Ingham, Norfolk and ''de jure'' Baron Ingham of Ingham, Norfolk, and Lord of the Manor of Bedale, Yorkshire. Family Sir Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Br ...

of Bedale,

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...

, inherited jure uxoris.Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain: Including Screens, Fonts, Monuments, &c., &c, Volume 1. By John Preston Neale, John Le Keux; For the proprietors by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824; page 17.
/ref> Ingham Old Hall has its origins in the medieval times having been built circa 1320.
/ref> In the 14th century the Hall was inhabited by the local Lord of the Manor, Sir Miles Stapleton, whose tomb stands in Ingham's Holy Trinity church alongside that of his father in law, Sir Oliver de Ingham.Norfolk Churches: Ingham
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Amenities

The village has one public house, The Ingham Swan, which is one of only two public houses tied to the Woodforde's Brewery of Woodbastwick in Norfolk.
Brewery website The original building was built in the 14th century and was part of

Ingham Priory Ingham Priory was a house of the Trinitarian Order in Ingham, Norfolk, England, founded by Sir Miles Stapleton, who had married the heiress of the Inghams. Pope Innocent VI authorised the foundation in 1355. It ceased to operate in 1536 during ...

until its destruction under Henry VIII in the 16th century. In spring 2010 chef Daniel Smith and business partner Gregory Adjemian took ownership of the pub, renaming it as The Ingham Swan to avoid confusion with The Swan in nearby

. The building has had much interior renovation.

References

External links

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Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Ingham.

on Ingham.
The Ingham Swan website

The Ingham Swan email subscription link

External links

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