Description
Welby, a township and a chapelry in Melton Mowbray parish, Leicestershire, 2 miles NW by W of Melton Mowbray railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Melton Mowbray. Acreage, 749; population, 51. The manor belongs to the Welby-Gregory baronet family. The living is annexed to Melton Mowbray. The church is a small plain building of stone in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
