A part of the Fylde, the parish includes the village of Inskip and the hamlets Crossmoor to the west and Sowerby to the east.

Also Inskip Moss Side lies about a mile north-west of the village at grid reference SD452391.

[2] Sowerby means a settlement standing on marshy ground, from the Old Norse words saurr and byr.

[3] Inskip was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Inscip along with Sowerby Sorbi, within the Amounderness Hundred.

10 local properties still have legal rights to graze cattle and geese on the open grassland, but it is now used as a recreation site.