WELBECK, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (S. W. by S.) from Worksop; containing 64 inhabitants. An abbey for Premonstratensian canons, in honour of St. James, was founded here in 1153, by Thomas le Flemangh, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £298. 4. 8.