Welton, Northamptonshire

Description
Welton, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, 2 miles N from Daventry, and with a station 2 miles NE on the main line of the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Daventry; money order and telegraph office, Daventry. Acreage, 1976; population, 412. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Welton Place, standing in a park of 40 acres, belongs to the Clarke family. A tunnel, 1 1/2 mile long, here connects the Grand Junction Canal with the Oxford Canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, vestry, and western tower with pinnacles. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.