INGTHORPE GRANGE.

[Stanley]

INGTHORPE GRANGE.
[‘EPNS. Place names of the West Riding’. Page 40. ‘Ingthorpe Grange. Ucnetorp 1086 DB. Unkethorpe, i. 12 Sawley 15, 1212-1223, 1219, 1224-33. Yorkshire Charters vii, 1291. Bolton Compotus, 1314. Hunketorp 1276 RH. Hungthorp, 1327 PT. Ungthorp, 1540 Min Acct. Engthorpe, 1544 Min Acct. Ingthorpe Grange 1817 M. ‘Thorp’, outlying homestead. The first element is probably the AScand. Personal name ‘Unkell’ from ON ‘Unnkell.]

Ekwall generally agrees with EPNS except to suggest that the Old Norse personal name is ‘Ingi’

[EXTRACTS FROM ‘BOLTON PRIORY. The economy of a northern monastery. 1286-1325. Ian Kershaw. Oxford University Press. 1973]

Page 33: ‘Six other demesnes were situated in manorialised villages in Craven. These more readily resembled normal manorial demesnes though even here there were some unusual features. At Ingthorpe and Kildwick the demesne was consolidated and quite separate from the tenanted land. Ingthorpe (usually Unckthorp or Hunkethorpe in the accounts) was a consolidated farm about a mile from the villages of East and West Marton and was always carefully distinguished in the priory's records from the land held in Marton itself.’

Page 36. ‘At Ingthorpe the demesne was farmed out between 1295 and 1297 but even then Bolton was investing the cash received from the lease in new stock for the demesne which was taken back in hand in 1297/98.’ Note 41; ‘Ingthorpe was centrally managed in two years, 1291/2 and 1294/5.’

Page 37. ‘Two demesnes, Halton and Ingthorpe failed to cover their expenses in 1314/15.’ [1315/17 was a very wet time with two failed harvests. May 1318/19 was the period when the Scottish raided the North.]

Page 50. ‘Reaping was the most costly seasonal task, sometimes accounting for more than half of the total expenditure on casual labour. Expenditure naturally varied with the quality of the harvest, the peak coming in the years 1310-15 when, with demesne production at its height, total reaping costs were between £21 and £27 a year. Between 1315 and 1319 they fell to between £12 and £16 and dropped to an average of no more than £6. 10s. a year from 1320 to 1325, when only the demesnes of Bolton and Malham remained in operation. Payment for reapers, usually 2d. or 3d. for a day's labour, was often entered for the home farm in the form of wages for men working 'as if for one day'. The highest number of 'man-days' recorded was 1,374 ½ in 1312/13, for the home farm and Angrum together. In 1314/15, 'man-days' on the home farm alone numbered 1,190, falling to 710 in the first famine year [1315/16] and to only 671 by 1318/19.`

Mowing, unlike reaping, was paid by piecework on an acreage basis. The most usual mowing rate was 4d. an acre but variations occurred according to conditions. In 1312/13, for example, most mowing was paid at 4d. an acre but at Kildwick 30 acres were mown at 5d. an acre, 12 acres at 6d.- ‘because of the flooding of the water of Ayre' [River Aire] and 10 acres at 7d. Mowing rates were commonly higher on the outlying manors than at the home farm and nearby. The normal rate of 4d. an acre was maintained in this area until the famine years, when it rose to 5d. then 6d. an acre-a rise felt generally in England at this date. At Malham, Ingthorpe, Kildwick, Cononley, and Ryther, a rate of 4 ½ d. to 6d. per acre was common throughout the period and sometimes even this was exceeded. Over 7d. an acre was paid at Ryther in 1310/11 and in 1314/15, a wet year in Airedale, mowing at Ingthorpe cost 7d. an acre.’

Page 53. ‘On the other demesnes there were eight oxherds [the men who cared for the cattle] at Halton, six at Kildwick, four at Angrum, Cononley and Ingthorpe (in each case later reduced to two).’

Page 95. ‘Horses were less numerous than cattle and were mainly used for harrowing and, presumably, general carting and draught work. Halton again had the greatest number, between ten and fifteen usually, while Ingthorpe had between seven and twelve in the years 1307 to 1313. Small numbers of five and under were kept at Kildwick, Malham, Ryther, and Cononley, and the granges close to Bolton used the home farm affers.[sic]’

GENUKI ENTRY from Langdale’s Topographical dictionary 1822.
“"INGTHORPE GRANGE, (the seat of J. Baldwin, Esq.) in the township of East and West Marton, and parish of East Marton; 6 miles from Skipton. Ingthorpe, now Ingthorpe Grange, was a Grange to Bolton Priory, and having been granted to the first Earl of Cumberland, in 1542, was sold by his grandson to the Baldwyns, in which family it still continues. Here the Canons seem to have had a small Cell and Chapel; for a Basso Relievo, in white marble, was found here some years ago; the subject of which seems to have been the apprehension of Christ, and Peter drawing his sword. --Whitaker."

EXTRACTS FROM THE BOLTON PRIORY COMPOTUS

[Stanley]

Research notes for Ingthorpe Grange.

[Stanley]

A useful compendium of research on Ingthorpe.

[Gloria]

What a beautiful place.

[Stanley]

And hidden away in a very quiet spot as well Gloria. It's on what is now the abandoned back lane between Stainton and East Marton.

[Gloria]

We will have a drive past next time we go to Skipton.
Having looked on street view I think that drive past is a no no, as you say Stanley an abandoned road, probably private now.

[PanBiker]

It's a bridleway for most of the length, Fine for walking and cycling and of course horses. For the latter much better than the canal bank from Bank Newton to East Marton. Part of the stretch is the Pennine Way.

[Stanley]

I should say it was abandoned more than 100 years ago. As long as I've known it it was the stretch towards Stainton that was used for access.