Hi all, I have certainly seen ing used in Yorkshire. Also the OED cites several references there and one in Sussex. It seems that an ing was often swampy but maybe not as wet as a fen. A carr was also a bit damp, being "wet boggy ground" or "a meadow recovered from a bog" - perhaps somewhere between an ing and a fen, the latter being "low land covered wholly or partially with shallow water, or subject to frequent inundations; a tract of such land, a marsh". Carr and fen are also Old Norse. John Field, in "English Field Names" has: Ing Close, Clayworth Nt, New Hutton We; Ing Field, pre-enclosure great field in Skirpenbeck ERY; Ingmire, Hurworth Du; Ings Holm, Everton Nt; Ings Meadow, Adlingfleet WRY: 'pasture land' [ON eng]. There follows the entry in the OED for ing. Cheers, Liz in Melbourne ing. local. Forms: enge, ynge, yng, ing(e. [a. ON. eng f., enge, engi neut. (Da. eng, Sw. äng), meadow, meadow-land. (Not recorded in OE.)] A common name in the north of England, and in some other parts, for a meadow; esp. one by the side of a river and more or less swampy or subject to inundation. 1483 Cath. Angl. 115/1 "Enge, vbi a medew." 1494 in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 261 "Elsay ynges." 1583 Ibid. 381 "A lease of Swilinge yng; the lease of Bushop yng." 1626 Quarter Sessions Rec. III. (North Riding Rec. Soc.) 14 "A common waie for leading corne and haie for the inhabitants of Great Broughton from their inges and feildes to the said towne, and for their cariages to the mill." 1663 MS. Indenture, Barlby, Yks., "2 half acres of meadow in the broad ing in Angram." 1793 Act 33 Geo. III, c. xci. title, "An act for dividing..the commons and waste grounds and ings, or meadow grounds, within the township of Knottingley, in the west riding of the county of York." 1828 Craven Dial., "Ing, a marshy meadow." 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre ix, "Mists as chill as death..rolled down ‘ing’ and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck." 1851 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 314 "Others [Fens] termed ‘ings’, belonging to various towns, yet remain (at particular seasons) in a wet condition." 1875 Parish Sussex Gloss., "Ing, a common, pasture, or meadow." c1890 Newspr., "This morning there is fully 5 ft. of ‘fresh’ in the Derwent, and the river is still rising. In the ings and marshes of the East Riding the river is over the banks." b. attrib., as ing ground, ing land. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 32 "In a moist yeare hard-lande-grasse proveth better then carres, or ing-growndes." 1794 Act Inclosing S. Kelsey 2 "Carr Lands, Ing Lands..and Furze Leas, within the said Manor." snip