Welton in the Marsh, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Welton-in-the-Marsh, a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Lincolnshire, on the East Lincoln railway, 1½ mile N of Burgh station, and 6 miles ENE of Spilsby. It has a post office under Burgh; money order and telegraph office, Burgh. Acreage, 2568; population of the civil parish, 322; of the ecclesiastical, with Gunby, 407. There is a parish council of six members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ancaster. The living is a vicarage, united with Gnnby rectory, in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is a modern building of stone and brick. 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 | Welton-In-The-Marsh St. Martin | |
Poor Law union | Spilsby | |
Wapentake | Candleshoe |
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 Marsh:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1869 | 1794-1794 | 1565-1911 | 1562-1911 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Welton in the Marsh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Welton-In-The-Marsh (St. Martin))
Maps
Online maps of Welton in the Marsh 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