Welton le Wold, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Welton-le-Wold, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles W of Louth station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Louth; money order and telegraph office, Loutli. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, and enlarged in 1849. There are Wesleyan and Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Welton-Le-Wold St. Martin | |
Hundred | Louth-Eske | |
Poor Law union | Louth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Welton Le Wold:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1894 | 1560-1910 | 1559-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Welton le Wold from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Welton-Le-Wold (St. Martin))
Maps
Online maps of Welton le Wold are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: