WELTON, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from
Daventry, containing 56 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £7, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St.Andrew.
The Grand Junction and Union canals meet at the
south-eastern extremity of the parish, and the latter
is previously crossed by Watling-street, which skirts the
eastern boundary. The poor children are taught for
£8 a year, paid from the receipts of the charity lands;
and a Sunday school is supported with £7. 10. per aniram
from the same fund.