Welbourn, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Welbourn, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 1 mile from Leadenham station on the G.N.R., and 9 miles NW of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Leadenham. Acreage, 3305; population, 546. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £360 with residence. The church is Early English, with Later English clerestory windows and with a chancel rebuilt in 1854, and has a richly crocketed spire supported by flying buttresses; the building was restored in 1884. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Welbourn St. Chad | |
Poor Law union | Sleaford | |
Wapentake | Boothby-Graffo |
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 Welbourn:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1909 | 1562-1911 | 1562-1884 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Welbourn from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Welbourn (St. Chad))
Maps
Online maps of Welbourn 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: