Ings is an old Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

 word for water meadows & marshes, including those which were part of the Humber

Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal River Ouse and the tidal River Trent. From here to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank...

 flood plain.

Ings often teem with large numbers of water birds and other wildlife. In recent times the word has fallen out of use as standard dialect

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

 but can still be found in place names such as Fairburn Ings, the RSPB reserve, Hall Ings, a section of the inner Bradford ring road, and the Far Ings Nature Reserve. Wetherby Athletic A.F.C and Wetherby Bulldogs RLFC play on the Wetherby Ings by the River Wharfe

River Wharfe

The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England. For much of its length it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The name Wharfe is Celtic and means "twisting, winding".The valley of the River Wharfe is known as Wharfedale...

.

External links

• Fairburn Ings, the RSPB reserve: http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/f/fairburnings/index.asp
• Far Ings Nature Reserve: http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/far_ings/index.php