Location of Ings Lane Bridlington please?

[ReJen]

My great grandmother was born at Navy Cottage, Ings Lane, Bridlington.
Can anyone tell me whereabouts this was please?

Kind regards, ReJen

[maddys52]

I can't see it on an old map yet, however there is this description of it's location:

"... Parallel to High Street are two narrow lanes, one on either side, North Back Land and South Back Lane; at right angles to the latter is a lane, Ings Lane, leading to the Ings, or swampy meadows, south of the town."

Report to the Local Government Board on the Recent Prevalence of Enteric Fever in the Bridlington Urban Saniraty District
Author Parsons, H. F.
Publication Date June 6, 1881

[maddys52]

Shows on this 1849 map:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344689#zoom=6.5&lat=8817&lon=6128&layers=BT

In 1889:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/125634565#zoom=5.1&lat=5561&lon=8575&layers=BT

Is it now Brookland Rd?
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.2&lat=54.09126&lon=-0.20801&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

[MollyC]

The word Ings means marshy ground, used for grazing or hay in the summer.

Building on flood-plains?  You can see the Main Drain collecting water from the north and taking it to the Gypsey Race (a parish boundary).  So someone decided to build to the south of it.  The Main Drain is probably still there, but hidden underground to the east.

[AlanBoyd]

Is ‘Brooklands’ a posher way of saying marshy ground?

Ings Lane seems to have disappeared gradually.

On the 1889 map linked by maddys52 in reply#2 it is labelled as Ings Lane.

On the 1891 Town Plan it is also labelled as Ings Lane, and we see that Garden Place was at the north end, near the the junction with South Back Lane (see census information below for the significance of this)
https://maps.nls.uk/view/229405701#zoom=4.2&lat=9553&lon=6133&layers=BT

On the 25 inch map 1911 it is labelled as Brookland Road.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/125634568#zoom=5.2&lat=5793&lon=8150&layers=BT

In the 1901 census there are addresses in Ings Lane and in Brookland Road, and the order that these appear in relation to South Back Lane and St Johns Walk suggests that Brookland Road was at the south end of Ings Lane. Garden Place appears at the norther, South Back Lane end of the sequence in Ings Lane.

In the 1911 census Garden Place addresses are recorded as Garden Place, Brookalnd Road.

And yet, in the 25 September 1914 edition of the Bridlington and Quay Gazette there is a table listing the clearance times for letter boxes in Bridlington, and Ings Lane is included. (Incidentally, cleared 7 times per day, earliest 5:45 a.m., latest 5:30 p.m.)

[ReJen]

Many thanks to all of you.

I have really enjoyed poring over the maps - quite fascinating. The side by side map is a wonderful tool.

Letter boxes cleared 7 times a day! It really was a different world.
This family was at least two generations of bricklayers and I see they must have been busy in Bridlington.

Thank you for your time, and a glimpse of their time,
Regards, ReJen