Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WELTON-LE-WOLD

WELTON-LE-WOLD, a parish, with a village, in Louth district, Lincoln; 4 miles W of Louth r. station. Post town, Louth. Acres, 2,520. Real property, £4,065. Pop., 335. Houses, 68. The manor belongs to the Rev. W. Smyth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £600.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was enlarged in 1838, and restored in 1850. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Welton le Wold AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Welton le Wold

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