Ingelsby Farm's roots stretch back to 1639. At its height it was a manor estate with around 70 employees, complete with a brickworks, smithy, distillery, head gardener, large cultivations and extensive forest. A small community of its own in the West Sweden countryside.
On New Year's Eve 1961 the old manor house burned to the ground during a renovation, set off by a construction heater. The owner at the time, Sven Suhr, who had moved here back in 1916, didn't give up. He rebuilt the farm, and his house is the one that stands here today: a white stone building in mexitegel of 400 square metres, with the same floor plan as its predecessor but in two storeys above a basement instead of three storeys above ground. The 17,000-square-metre park, with the river Tidan winding past, was left intact.
Since 2003 Ingelsby has been run by Lena and Per-Arne Adolfsson, who have carried on the tradition of keeping the place open to others. The motorhome stop is a new little chapter in the farm's long story: a way to share this place with travellers looking for calm, nature, and a night's rest away from the motorway.
Source: Gård & Villa Skaraborg, no. 3, April 2018, "Ett eget Eden utanför Tibro", text and photo by Ulf C Nilsson.
