It is said that owing to the mossy, swampy land which adjoins the west side of the Green, Inglewhite was once famous for the ignis-fatuus - moving whitish fire - vulgarly called "will-o-the-wisp" and "Jack-with-the-lantern" from which it is probable that Inglewhite had its name.
Ingle, being another name for fire, so by transposition we have Firewhite or Inglewhite.
This is an extract from Goosnargh Past and Present, published in 1887 by Richard Cookson
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