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.

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:

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:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury