Welham, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Welham, a parish in Leicestershire, on the north bank of the Welland, which separates it from Northamptonshire, 2 miles NW from Ashley and Weston station on the L. &N.W.R., and 4½ NE from Market Harborough. Post town, Market Harborough; money order office, Hallaton; telegraph office, East Langton. Acreage, 1143; population, 60. The manor belongs to the Tailby family, who are chief landowners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £188 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of stone in the Decorated style, consists of chancel, nave, N transeptal chapel, and a western tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Welham St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Gartree | |
Poor Law union | Mahket-Harborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Welham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Welham (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Welham 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 Leicestershire newspapers online: