The adjoining parish with its mellifluous name of _Ingoldmells_, (pronounced Ingomells), has had its suffix derived from the Norse _melr_, said to mean the curious long grass of the sandhills. It might perhaps be more correctly considered as the same suffix which we have on the Norse-settled Cumbrian coast at Eskmeals, or Meols, where it is said to mean a sandy hill or dune, a name which would well fit in with the locality here. Thus the whole name would mean the sand-dunes of Ingulf, a Norse invader of the ninth century. A farmer we met at Winthorpe, next parish to Ingoldmells, alluded to these sandhills when he said, “It is a sträange thing, wi’ all yon sand nobbut häfe a mile off, that we cant hav nowt but this mucky owd cläy hereabouts: not fit for owt.” But the Romans found the clay very useful for making their great embankment along the coast. _Ingoldmells_ church, though good, is not so fine as Addlethorpe; but it has a very interesting little brass, dated 1520, to “William Palmer wyth ye stylt,” a very rare instance of an infirmity being alluded to on a brass. The brass shows a crutched stick at his side. The porch has a quatrefoil opening on either side, and a niche; and a curious apse-like line of stones in the brick paving goes round all but the east side of the fine front. Round the base of the churchyard cross is a later inscription cut in 1600, J. O. Clerk. “Christus solus mihi salus,” and figures run round three sides of the base, beginning on the north 1, 2, 3; and on the east 4, 5, 6; none on the south, but on the west 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, at the corner 10; and again on the north, 11, 12. Doubtless it was a form of sundial, the cross shaft throwing its shadow in the direction of the figures. Of the four bells one has fallen and lies on the belfry floor. One has on it, according to Oldfield, “Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, 1829,” “Catarina vocata sum rosa _pulsata_ mundi” (I am called Catherine, the beaten rose of the world); and on another is the rhyme— “John Barns churchwarden being then alive Caused us to be cast 1705:” At Partney a bell has the same Catarina legend, but with _dulcata_ (= sweet) instead of _pulsata_. S and C are often interchanged, and I think the ‘p’ is really a ‘d’ upside down on the Ingoldmells bell, especially as the bell is of about the same date and was also cast by the same man—Penn of Peterborough. I must admit, however, that _pulsata_ on a bell with a clapper has something to be said for it; still, _dulcata_ (sweet) is the obviously proper epithet for rose. [Illustration: _The Roman Bank at Winthorpe._] [Sidenote: THE SEA BANKS] [Sidenote: RICH OAK CARVING]