Wimpey, Persimmon PLC, Avant and Bellway. The Rings housing development is named after a meandering of the River Tees, to the west of the village. Roads are named after Romano-British street and places to show the village's association with a Roman site. Houses built when the village was developed were built by Persimmon plc and its subsidiary Charles Church Developments. Taylor Wimpey, a long-term developer of houses in Ingleby Barwick, also contributed through an agreement with Persimmon. Both developers have local-bases, Taylor Wimpey in Preston Farm Industrial Estate and Persimmon in Teesdale Industrial Estate, Thornaby. Governance Town Council Previously under the Maltby and Ingleby Barwick Parish Council, the parish council split in 1990. Ingleby Barwick Parish Council became a town council in 2007, therefore giving the settlement town status. It has 12 councillors. The town council manage The Rings Community Hub Rings, Beckfields Community Hall and the war memorial in Romano Park. In 2021 the council attracted controversy after they declined a request for the council to fly the Pride Flag during pride month. Coat of Arms The Coat of Arms was given to the town in October 2000. It contains: a representation of the three rivers that run around Ingleby Barwick; depictions of mill-rinds which are an historical link to the Turner family, who used to own most of the land which now forms the town, and the Barwick element of the name. The crest shows a Teal bird which refers to a horse named Teal, trained at Middleham by Captain Neville Crump, which won the Grand National in 1952. The Teal Arms in the town is also a reference to the horse. Borough and county Historically the town is part of the North Riding of Yorkshire which was a county from 1899 to 1974. From 1894 to 1932, the parish was in the Middlesbrough Rural District then Stokesley Rural District from 1932 until 1974. Ingleby Barwick then became a part of the Cleveland non-metropolitan district of Stockton-on-Tees in 1974 until 1996. Since the county was abolished in 1996, Ingleby is now placed into non-administrative North Yorkshire, governed by the direct successor unitary authority of Stockton-on-Tees. Ingleby Barwick, as part of the Borough of Stockton on Tees, has six borough councillors representing the two wards Ingleby Barwick East (including Hilton and Maltby parishes) and Ingleby Barwick West (with High Leven and Low Leven). As of 2019 the community has