INGRESS ABBEY, a seat in Swanscombe parish, Kent; adjacent to the Thames and to the North Kent railway, in the eastern vicinity of Greenhithe. The estate around it belonged to Dartford nunnery; was formerly called Incegrice; passed from its monastic possessors to the Carmichaels, the Besboroughs, the Calcrafts, the Roebucks, and the Harmers; and belongs now to S.Umfreville, Esq. The present edifice is a handsome structure in the Tudor style; was built by the late Alderinan Harmer, out of stone from Old London Bridge; and stands amid tastefully wooded grounds.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))