Ingarsby is one of the best preserved deserted medieval villages in England. The settlement was founded by a Dane called Ingwar in the 9th or 10th century - "Ingwar's village". By Norman times, it had grown to a substantial village and the Domesday Book of 1086 recorded 32 heads of households. When the manor was granted to Leicester Abbey in 1352, a dozen families lived in the village. The settlement was deserted in 1469 when the Abbey enclosed the the land and converted it to sheep and cattle pastures, by far the most valuable grange property in Leicestershire when it was sold at the Reformation in 1540. All that remains now are well delineated rectangular mounds that mark the house-sites of the arable farmers that were driven out, and the hollow ways where the village streets and lanes once ran.
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