WELTON, a parish, with a village, in Daventry district, Northampton; 2 miles S by W of Crick r. station, and 2 NNE of Daventry. It has a post-office under Daventry. Acres, 1,690. Real property, £4,410. Pop., 592. Houses, 148. The manor, with W. Place, belongs to R. T. Clarke, Esq. W. House is the seat of Mrs. Watson; and W. Grange, of R. Bliss, Esq. A tunnel, 1½ mile long, here connects the Grand Junction canal with the Oxford canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £193.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is later English. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £120.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))