WELFORD, a parish, with five hamlets, in Newbury district, Berks; on the river Lambourn, 4¼ miles NNE of Kintbury r. station, and 6 NW of Newbury. It has a postal wall-box under Newbury. Acres, 5,173. Real property, £7,539. Pop., 1,030. Houses, 224. The manor, with W. Park, belongs to Eyre, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of .Oxford. Value, £1,400.* Patron, the Rev. W. Nicholson. The church was recently rebuilt, partly after the model of the previous church, which ranged from Norman to later English and was much admired; and it has a round spire. An old chapel of ease stood at Wickham; and, excepting the lower part of the tower, was recently rebuilt. There is a national school.

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