Ingleby Barwick is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It is south of the River Tees and north-east of the River Leven.
Large scale development of the town started in the late 1970s on farm land south-west of Thornaby, the first development being officially opened on 30 July 1981 by the mayor of Stockton-on-Tees. The parish gained town status in 2007.
In 2011, the population of the civil parish of Ingleby Barwick was 20,378, its two electoral wards (which also include the settlements of Hilton, Maltby, High Leven and Low Leven) had a population of 21,045.
Etymology Ingleby Barwick was originally two settlements under a single joint parish, it is common to shorten the name to Ingleby in speech unless disambiguation is needed. Ingleby is derived from Old Norse Englar+by, a group of Angles' place. Barwick is of Anglo-Saxon in origin, Bere is Old English for barley and Wick means farm.
A '-by' suffix is a homophone to the word 'bee' and such place with the suffix are common locally: Maltby, Thornaby and Coulby Newham. The by-laws are remnant of by's use as a word for a place type, the word itself has come to be pronounced in this case as a homophone to 'bye'. Ingleby is a common name around Yorkshire. Ingleby Arncliffe and Ingleby Greenhow are notably within a ten-mile distance from the town and in the same county, North Yorkshire.A Dictionary of British Place-Names, A. D. Mills & Adrian Room, Oxford University Press, 2nd Ed 1998
This name is pronounced two ways. One way Barwick is pronounced is Bar-ick, this loss is traditional and also seen with Berwick-upon-Tweed. The second way of pronouncing is closer to how the individual words evolved in English and how the name is spelt, Bar-wick. This reflects the name's origin as two separate words. Both ways are common in Ingleby Barwick itself.
History Prehistoric and ancient The settlement of Ingleby Barwick has been occupied for thousands of years. There are traces of human occupation from as far back as the Stone Age. Work at a former farm discovered prolific multi period flintwork and Iron Age field patterns in the town.Archaeological Services. 1997. Ingleby Barwick Villages 5 and 6. Land near Quarry Farm and Barwick Farm: An Archaeological Evaluation. University of Durham. Unpublished Report.
A salvage excavation was carried out on the former Windmills Fields of the town, at the end of 1996. Five individual burials were found along with a wooden cist, these finds were accompanied by objects containing stone, jet and copper alloy of high status. This site was considered of European significance as it threw new light on the settlement of the area in the Bronze Age and highlighted a change in tradition of burial traditions and trade networks at this time.Tees Archaeology. Early Bronze Age burials at Windmill Fields, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton on Tees.
A Roman settlement is also apparent in the town and a Roman Villa, was excavated in part. This has been preserved as public open space at Condercum Green in The Rings area of Ingleby Barwick. Building work at Quarry Farm discovered prolific concentrations of multi period flintwork along the South Bank of the River Tees and traces of Iron Age field patterns were discovered. A Roman Villa , perhaps the most northerly in UK, was excavated in part. The "official" report on the excavation was published in 2013 with the title "A Roman Villa at the Edge of Empire" ( )
Norman era After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Manor of Barwick was given to Robert Malet, the son of William Malet, William the Conqueror's great chamberlain. In the 13th century the land was owned by the Priors of Guisborough Priory and Jervaulx Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Between the 14th and 16th centuries landowners in the area included the Percys of Northumberland and the Parrs of Nottingham.
Renaissance
The Middle Ages are considered to have ended with the Renaissance in the mid 15th century. In the 17th century the Manor of Barwick was sold to Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica and then to Sir William Turner of Kirkleatham.
Modern After 1611, it is not known when the two separate places of Barwick and Ingleby combined their names or if Ingleby developed as a separate settlement or spawned from and then re-merged with Barwick. The land was in the ownership of the Turners, with them gaining profits from the land used to support a free school and hospital at Kirkleatham.
Industrial revolution
The north of Ingleby Barwick was formerly quarried for Whinstone. Much of this area now forms Ingleby Barwick Golf Academy and northern part of The Rings. Evidence of a tramway system and jetty on historic Ordnance Survey maps suggest that the Whinstone was exported by boat.
Ingleby Barwick is listed as being a township in the parish of Stainton in 1887.John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)A Vision of Britain through time. Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ingleby Barwick Its population was given as 132. During this time the land was sold off by the Turner estate.
World wars During the Second World War Ingleby Barwick stood near to the south-western perimeter of Thornaby Airfield and a number of aircraft crashed where Ingleby Barwick now stands. On 11 June 1940 a Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson crashed at Quarry Farm killing the four crew after the bomb load exploded on crashing. On 28 April 1941 a Bristol Blenheim crashed at Barwick Lane killing all three crew. On 18 December 1941 a Lockheed Hudson stalled soon after take off and crashed into Quarry Farm killing the five crew and four civilians. On 4 September 1942 a Lockheed Hudson crashed at Myton House Farm killing the four crew. The last aircraft accident was a Photo Reconnaissance de Havilland Mosquito which was attempting to land at Thornaby on one engine and crashed into land which is now home to Ingleby Mill School on 11 November 1943 killing both crew members; there is now a stone marking the crash site.Hidden TeessideDoris Perley. Ingleby Barwick, the new settlement.
Farms There are still a number of farmhouses that pre-date the 1980s-onward development. Low Farm. One of the buildings is incorporated in the Teal Arms pub. Cleveland View on Barwick Lane is another former farm building, belonging originally to Lane House Farm. There are original buildings from Ingleby Hill Farm at the end of Heddon Grove, now residential. Ingleby Close Farm buildings, which lie on land originally occupied by Betty's Close Farm, now residential, lie between Crosswell Park and Trevine Gardens. The original Myton House Farm site is marked by the public house that bears its name. The pub's website says "Formally (sic) a farmhouse..." Ingleby Hill Farm, an early 19th–century, late Georgian, grade II listed farmhouse. White House Farm, converted into houses around the late 2000s to early 2010s.
Mills Black Mill on Raydale Beck is the remnant of a corn mill built on the original Sober Hall Farm, now residential. The Old Mill at the southern end of Barwick Lane is now a bed and breakfast
Governance Town council Previously under the Maltby and Ingleby Barwick Parish Council, the parish council split in 1990. Ingleby Barwick Parish Council became a town council in 2007 by passing a resolution under the Local Government Act 1972 s245(6), therefore giving the settlement town status.Ingleby Barwick Town Council Minutes, 21 February 2007, Page 7, Minute 174 – Town Council Status
It has 6 councillors from 4 May 2023, rather than the 12 previously allocated, due to a Boundary Commission error. The town council manage The Rings Community Hub Rings and the war memorial in Romano Park.
In 2021 the council attracted controversy after they declined a request for the council to fly the pride flag during pride month.
Coat of Arms
The Coat of Arms was given to the town in October 2000. It contains: a representation of the three rivers that run around Ingleby Barwick; depictions of mill-rinds which are an historical link to the Turner family, who used to own most of the land which now forms the town, and the Barwick element of the name.
The crest shows a Teal bird which refers to a horse named Teal, trained at Middleham by Captain Neville Crump, which won the Grand National in 1952. The Teal Arms in the town is also a reference to the horse.
Borough and county Historically the town is part of the North Riding of Yorkshire which was a county from 1899 to 1974. From 1894 to 1932, the parish was in the Middlesbrough Rural District then Stokesley Rural District from 1932 until 1974.
Ingleby Barwick then became a part of the Cleveland non-metropolitan district of Stockton-on-Tees in 1974 until 1996. Since the county was abolished in 1996, Ingleby is now placed into non-administrative North Yorkshire, governed by the direct successor unitary authority of Stockton-on-Tees.
Ingleby Barwick, as part of the Borough of Stockton on Tees, has six borough councillors representing the two wards Ingleby Barwick East (including Hilton and Maltby parishes) and Ingleby Barwick West (with High Leven and Low Leven). As of 2019 the community has been represented by independent councillors and those from the Conservative party and Ingleby Barwick Independent Society (IBIS).
They are currently six councillors that represent the town's wards. Ingleby Barwick East ward is represented by: Ted Strike (independent) Alan Watson (Conservative) Sally Ann Watson (Conservative) Ingleby Barwick West ward: Ken Dixon (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) Kevin Faulks (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) Ross Patterson (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society)
Demography
+Historical population of Ingleby BarwickA Vision of Britain Through Time. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10437544&c_id=10001043&add=NYear18811891190119111921193119511961200120112016 Population 132 115 124 147 118 133 141 113 16,28021,04522,290
+ Data from the 2001 censusDemographicIngleby BarwickStockton-On-TeesEnglandTotal population16,280178,40849,138,831Long-term illness9.31%19.86%17.93%Unemployed2.35%4.98%3.35%Aged 75+1.59%6.41%7.6%Mean age31.8737.9738.6Ethnic white95.46%96.22%86.99%Christian81.34%81.58%71.8%Married or remarried64.6%53.2%50.9% The 2001 United Kingdom census found Ingleby Barwick had 5,862 households and a population of 16,280, of which 8,272 were male and 8,008 female.
The town consists largely of owner-occupied properties and private rental properties making up 98% of the population. Council housing makes up the other 2%.
Ethnic diversity is minimal in Ingleby Barwick. Over 95% of residents class themselves as White British. The population is generally younger than average for Stockton-On-Tees with a mean age of 31.87 highlighting the high proportion of families with children in the town. In 2011 however, 92% of Ingleby Barwick's 21,045 residents were White British, 5.2% Asian and 0.4% Black.
Residents of Ingleby Barwick tend to have attained a higher level of education compared with Stockton-On-Tees and nationally. Over 25% of residents reported attaining a degree or higher level HNC/HND or NVQ compared with only 15% in Stockton as a whole.
The people of Ingleby Barwick enjoy a high employment rate, with 75% reporting themselves as being in full or part-time employment or being self-employed. Of these 76% usually travel to work by car or van, travelling an average distance of 21 km. Only 2.7% get to work on foot suggesting that most of the employment is from outside of Ingleby Barwick. The largest industry of employment was manufacturing accounting for 16.6% of the workforce. 50% of those working were in roles either in professional occupations or in companies at senior managerial levels.Office for National Statistics. Census 2001. Lead Dataset List