The Welland, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Welland, The, a river of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Lincolnshire. It rises near Sibbertoft, within the NW border of Northamptonshire; runs along the boundary between Northamptonshire on the right and the other three counties on the left, past Market Harborough, Rockingham, Stamford, and Market Deeping, to a point 2 miles WSW of Crowland, and then goes north-eastward through the SE of Lincolnshire, past Spalding, to the Wash in the vicinity of Fossdyke. It has a total course of about 70 miles, and it is navigable for small craft up to Market Deeping, and with the aid of a canal thence to Stamford.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Northamptonshire papers online: