WELBY, a parish in the wapentake of WINNIBRIGGS-and-THREO,
parts of KESTEVEN, county of LINCOLN,
4 miles (E. by N.) from Grantham, containing
377 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £ 10. 6. 3., and in the patronage of the Prebendary
of South Grantham in the Cathedral Church
of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.