WELFORD, a parish, with a village, in the district of Lutterworth and county of Northampton; on a branch of the Grand Junction canal, 2½ miles SE of the Rugby and Stamford railway, and 10 ENE of Rugby. It has a post-office‡ under Rugby, and a r. station. Acres, 3,650. Real property, £6,857. Pop., 1,099. Houses, 263. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £230.* Patron, the Bishop of P. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £6 a year, and charities £45.

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