Welton, Northumberland
Historical Description
Welton, a township in Ovingham parish, Northumberland, near the Roman Wall, 3 miles from Prndhoe station on the N.E.R., and 9 ENE of Hexham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Stocksfield (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1145 of land and 59 of water; population, 50. The reservoirs for the supply of water to Newcastle-on-Tyne are partly in this township.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northumberland | |
| Civil parish | Ovingham | |
| Poor Law union | Hexham | |
| Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Welton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Welton 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 newspapers related to Northumberland online: