Welham (St. Andrew)
WELHAM (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Mahket-Harborough, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 4¼ miles (N. E. by N.) from Harborough; containing 66 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £98. Richard Bryan, in 1803, bequeathed £8. 8. per annum to be distributed in bread to the poor; and the rent of a portion of land is applied to repairing the church.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.