WELFORD, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 8 miles (S. W.
by W.) from Market-Harborough, containing 1005 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with
that of Sibbertoft united, in the archdeaconry of
Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in
the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. There are places of worship for Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists. The Grand Union
canal passes through the parish. The free school and
premises here were purchased out of funds arising
from the church and poor's lands; the income is
£21.10. a year.