444 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



Ash, belonging to Mr Eobert Ogle of Eglingham, was advertised 

 for sale in the Newcastle Courant — the whole containing 4,003 

 acres of arable and pasture ground, viz.: Ingram, 2,348 acres; 

 and Greenside Hill and Grieve's Ash, 1,655 acres; "generally 

 allowed to be one of the best grazing farms in the county." 



Mackenzie says that in 1825 it was the property of John 

 Collingwood Tarleton, Esq. (Northd. n. p. 20.) Latterly it was 

 purchased by the late Mr William Eoddam, and is still held by 

 Mr Eoddam of Eoddam. The Kev. James Allgood was for many 

 years Eector of Ingram, but when he succeeded to the family 

 estates on the death of his brother, Mr Hunter Allgood of Nun- 

 wick on North Tyne, he gave up the living and appointed Canon 

 Ilderton, the present rector. (Inform, of Mr Bolam.) 



The ancient name of the place is Angerham, not Ingram, sig- 

 nifying the dwelling on the meadow. Anger in Germany, is still 

 a common, a pasture-ground, the common grass-plot. Anger- 

 hausler is one whose house is built on the common grass-plot of 

 a village. Ivg (another form of the word) in some of the northern 

 English dialects, signifies a meadow, generally one lying near a 

 river. Croft angry, often supposed to be a Gaelic word (croft- 

 an-righ) is from the same source. Ihre says ceng is a flat meadow 

 between a town and a river on which the market or fair was held. 

 Ing, inge, A.S., a pasture meadow. The church actually stands 

 on an anger or flat near the river. 



In 1859 the pier of an ancient bridge that spanned the unruly 

 water near the church was laid bare by a winter spate, which 

 changed the course of the river. It was forthwith published as 

 Roman, but nearly every structure in stone and lime, of which 

 there is no other account, is attributed to the conquerors of the 

 world. Architects who could build churches could surely con- 

 struct bridges as well as the Eomans. 



Ingram, and the neighbouring townships, lay in perilous 

 proximity to the Scottish Border, and was in more senses than 

 one not Scot-free. The Earl of Northumberland, writing to King 

 Henry VIII., gives the following account of an inroad of the 

 Scots on the 21st November 1532, in which it was involved. 

 " The Scots layed their bushment in the edge of Cheviot ; after 

 whiche so doon, and the bushment and forray met, they did cast 

 off two other forrays about xij. of the cloke of the day light. 

 And the oone forray did run down the water of Bremyshe, and 

 there toke up iiij. towns, called Ingram, Eeveyley, Brandon and 



