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.

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:

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

Villages, Hamlets, &c