Human settlement in England
| Welton le Wold | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Martin, Welton le Wold | |
  Welton le WoldLocation within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 216 (2011) |
| 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 | |
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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.
History
The 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.
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 indicate that the area was once inhabited by archaic humans, probably in the middle Pleistocene, some 400,000 years ago.
A much later Neolithic settlement, perhaps as early as 2,000 BCE, is evident from the bronze age Bowl Barrow north of Warren Farm 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.
Welton is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 57 households 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.
Landmarks
The 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.
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 and is now Grade II listed.
References
- "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.
- ^ 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
Media related to Welton le Wold at Wikimedia Commons
