WELTON, a parish in the wapentake of LAWRESS, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 6 miles (N. N.E.) from Lincoln, containing 484 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the five Prebendaries of Welton in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.