Welton le Wold is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6 km) west of the town of Louth.
| Welton le Wold | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Martin, Welton le Wold | |
  Welton le Wold Location within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 216 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TF273869 |
| • London | 125 mi (201 km) S |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Louth |
| Postcode district | LN11 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
History
editThe name 'Welton le Wold' derives from the Old English Wella-tun meaning 'farm/settlement with a spring/stream'. Wold was added to distinguish from the other villages named Welton in Lincolnshire.[2]
The land surrounding Welton le Wold has been subject to intermittent human inhabitation for hundreds of thousands of years. Four flint hand axes discovered in a sand and gravel quarry near Welton le Wold between 1969 and 1973[3] indicate that the area was once inhabited by archaic humans, probably in the middle Pleistocene, some 400,000 years ago.[4]
A much later Neolithic settlement, perhaps as early as 2,000 BCE, is evident from the bronze age Bowl Barrow north of Warren Farm[5] while a 2nd to 4th century Roman villa at Welton le Wold is betrayed by soil and crop marks and the significant quantity of Roman artefacts and coins found in the area.[4]
Welton is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 57 households[6] and excavation of Medieval earthworks in the village also revealed evidence of buildings occupied in the 11th to 14th centuries, coinciding with the oldest components of St Martin’s Church.[7]
Landmarks
editThe parish church is a Grade II* listed building dedicated to Saint Martin, dating from the 14th century and restored in 1849 by S. S. Teulon. The west tower and the font are 14th-century.[8]
Welton le Wold C of E School was a red-brick school built as a national school in 1840 and reorganised as a junior school in 1928. It closed in July 1974[9] and is now Grade II listed.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk.
- ^ Alabaster; Straw (30 August 1976). "The Pleistocene Context of Faunal Remains and Artefacts Discovered at Welton le Wold, Lincolnshire". Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 41 (8): 75–94.
- ^ a b Green, Caitlin (2014). The Origins of Louth: Archaeology and History in East Lincolnshire 400,000BC to 1086. Lindes Press. pp. 4–7, 43–50. ISBN 9780957033627.
- ^ "Monument record MLI43525 - Bronze Age Bowl Barrow, Warren Farm, Welton le Wold". Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ^ "Welton Le Wold". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ Welton Le Wold. An Historical Walk Through the Life of a Rural Lincolnshire Village. 2009. ISBN 9780956185259.
- ^ Historic England. "St Martins church (1307089)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ "Welton le Wold CE School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ Historic England. "Old School and House (1307088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
External links
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