Inworth

Inworth is a small village and in the civil parish of Messing-cum-Inworth, in the Colchester district of Essex, England, near to Tiptree.

Inworth
All Saints' Church
Inworth Location within Essex
Civil parish	Messing-cum-Inworth
District	Colchester
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Essex 51°49′N 0°44′E

Inworth village dates back to medieval times, and has been known in the past as Ineworth, Inneworth, Inneworde and Inford. A placename close to the modern name is first attested in the Curia Regis Rolls of 1206, where it appears as Inewrth. This derives from Ina's worþ ("Ina's homestead").^[1]

The grave of local celebrity 'Spotty', a faithful golden retriever, can be found by the village post office, attracting many visitors. His ghost is said to haunt the meat shop on the corner.^[2]

All Saints' Church dates from the 11th century and is a grade I listed building.^[3]

Inworth was an ancient parish in the Lexden hundred of Essex. The parish was abolished in 1934; the southern end of the parish was added to the new parish of Tiptree, a small area was transferred to Feering, and the remainder merged with Messing to form a new civil parish called Messing-cum-Inworth.^[4] At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Inworth had a population of 847.^[5]