Description
Welbourn, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 1 mile from Leadenham station on the G.N.R., and 9 miles NW of Sleaford. It has a post office under Lincoln; money order and telegraph office, Leadenham. Acreage, 3305; population, 546. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £360 with residence. The church is Early English, with Later English clerestory windows and with a chancel rebuilt in 1854, and has a richly crocketed spire supported by flying buttresses; the building was restored in 1884. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
