Auld map of the homeland

Ingulbee - means village of the English. Named so by Viking/Danes who were in charge at that time.
So there were four such villages of English in the area, Barwick, Greenhow, Arncliffe and Cross.
Further away Walton (as in Lido) on Tees was recorded as village of Welsh or British people.
Normanby is a village of Norse.
A name can tell you a lot about the origins of a place and its people.
 
As far as I can find out "Eaglescliffe" is simply an alternative spelling of "Egglescliffe"?

Egglescliffe appears on the very oldest maps (the spelling varies) but Eaglescliffe seems to appear with the railway station being named "Eaglescliffe Junction" and the town grew up around it.
 
It's Danish, meaning a farmstead, a lot of the names are holdovers from when the Danish and Norse invaded Britain in the 800s.

 
A new Anglo Saxon village is established beneath Odensbury. It becomes known as Newton under Odensbury. Someone, somewhere hears this wrong and takes the R from Under and it becomes Rodensbury which still doesnt sound very English but then again it looks quite like Roseberry and so the name has evolved. Not sure just when and how Topping came about but it helped describe the landmark.
 
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