Ings

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title: "Ings" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["wetlands-of-england", "english-dialect-words", "humber"] description: "Norse word for water meadows" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ings" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Norse word for water meadows ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Ings.jpg" caption="The [[Wetherby Ings]] on the [[River Wharfe]] at [[Wetherby]], [[West Yorkshire"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Wet_ings.jpg" caption="Wetherby Ings underwater as occurs in most years" alt="Wetherby Ings filled with water as it acts a flood plain."] ::

Ings is an old word of Old English origin referring to water meadows and marshes.

The term appears in place names in Yorkshire (such as Hall Ings, Bradford, Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve, Clifton Ings in York, Derwent Ings, Sutton Ings, Acaster South Ings, and Wetherby Ings), as well as in Cumbria, and in Lincolnshire.

"Ings" may be of direct Old English origin or potentially borrowed into Old English from Old Norse.

References

References

1. "Beckmickle Ing". www.woodlandtrust.org.uk.
2. "Far Ings Nature Reserve". www.lincstrust.org.uk.

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