Place:Welton Rural, Lindsey, England

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NameWelton Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates53.3°N 0.4°W
Located inLindsey, England     (1894 - 1974)
Also located inLincolnshire, England    
See alsoWest Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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Welton Rural District was located in the Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey (or the administrative county of Lindsey) from 1894 to 1974 and was bounded on the south by Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven, and on the northwest by Gainsborough Rural District, on the north by Caistor Rural District, and on the east by Horncastle Rural District. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Lincoln Rural Sanitary District which was in Lindsey - the Kesteven part of the same rural sanitary district forming the Branston Rural District. It was named after the village of Welton.

The rural district was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and became part of the West Lindsey District of Lincolnshire.

Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Aisthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 also known as East Thorpe
Apley parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Bardney parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Barlings parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Brattleby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Broxholme parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Bullington chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Burton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Caenby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Cammeringham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Cherry Willingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Cold Hanworth parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Coldstead extraparochial, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Dunholme parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
East Firsby chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Faldingworth parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Fiskerton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Friesthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Fulnetby chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Goltho parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Grange de Lings extraparochial, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Greetwell parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Hackthorn parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Holton cum Beckering parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Ingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Nettleham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Newball hamlet, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Normanby by Spital parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
North Carlton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Owmby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Rand parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Reepham chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Riseholme parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Saxby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Saxelby with Ingleby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 sometimes Saxilby
Scampton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Scothern parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Snarford parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Snelland parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
South Carlton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Spridlington parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Stainfield chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Stainton by Langworth parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Sudbrooke parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Thorpe in the Fallows parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 also known as West Thorpe
Welton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
West Firsby township, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Wickenby parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974

Research Tips

  • Maps provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time show all the parishes and many villages and hamlets. (Small local reorganization of parishes took place in the 1930s led to differences between the latter two maps.):
  • The National Library of Scotland [1] also provides a large number of maps for all the counties and districts of England as well as those of Scotland. Their maps of England only cover modern placenames, but they do allow the user to view a parish in relation to its neighbours. These maps are very easy to read.
  • FindMyPast now has a large collection of Lincolnshire baptisms, banns, marriages and burials now available to search by name, year, place and parent's names. This is a pay website. (blog dated 16 Sep 2016)
  • GENUKI's page on Lincolnshire's Archive Service gives addresses, phone numbers, webpages for all archive offices, museums and libraries in Lincolnshire which may store old records and also presents a list entitled "Hints for the new researcher" which may include details of which you are not aware. These suggestions are becoming more and more outdated, but there's no telling what may be expected in a small library.
  • GENUKI also has pages of information on individual parishes, particularly ecclesiastical parishes. The author may just come up with morsels of information not supplied in other internet-available sources.
  • Deceased Online now has records for 11 cemeteries and two crematoria in Lincolnshire. This includes Grimsby's Scartho Road cemetery, Scartho Road crematorium, and Cleethorpes cemetery, council records for the City of Lincoln and Gainsborough, and older church records from The National Archives for St Michael's in Stamford, and St Mark's in Lincoln, dating back to 1707. This is a pay website.

The south of Lincolnshire is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. The larger drainage channels, many of which are parallel to each other, became boundaries between parishes. Many parishes are long and thin for this reason.

There is much fenland in Lincolnshire, particularly in the Boston and Horncastle areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial before the mid 1850s, and although many sections were identified with names and given the title "civil parish", little information has been found about them. Many appear to be abolished in 1906, but the parish which adopts them is not given in A Vision of Britain through Time. Note the WR category Lincolnshire Fenland Settlements which is an attempt to organize them into one list.

From 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland (in the southeast), Parts of Kesteven (in the southwest) and Parts of Lindsey (in the north of the county). These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were, nonetheless. In 1974 the northern section of Lindsey, along with the East Riding of Yorkshire, became the short-lived county of Humberside. In 1996 Humberside was abolished and the area previously in Lincolnshire was made into the two "unitary authorities" of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The remainder of Lincolnshire was divided into "non-metropolitan districts" or "district municipalities" in 1974. Towns, villages and parishes are all listed under Lincolnshire, but the present-day districts are also given so that places in this large county can more easily be located and linked to their wider neighbourhoods. See the WR placepage Lincolnshire, England and the smaller divisions for further explanation.

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