Its nearest town is Bath, which lies approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north-east from the hamlet.

[1] Inglesbatch, like the neighbouring Englishcombe, probably derives its name from the Anglo-Saxon personal name "Ingwald", as in Ingwald's batch,[2] with batch possibly denoting a hillock[3] or stream or valley.

[7] Home Farmhouse is slightly later having been built in the mid 19th century.

A Baptist chapel was built in the village in 1813,[9] and has now been converted into a private dwelling.

Katherine Evans,[10] a famous Quaker who was imprisoned in Malta in 1658 under the Spanish Inquisition was from Inglesbatch.