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Welham

Description in 1871:
"WELHAM, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; 2 miles WNW of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, and 4 NE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Market-Harborough. Acres, 1,109. Real property, £2,585. Pop., 65. Houses, 16. The manor belongs to W. W. Tailby, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £240.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was restored in 1869. Charities, £10."
"John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales', 1870-72

Census

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
  
  
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It sits on Bowden Lane.
  
  
• The church dates back prior to 1600.
  
  
• The church seats 50.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1695.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Welham is a parish and a small village in Leicestershire, on the north side of the River Welland, which separates it from Northamptonshire. It is about 92 miles north of London, 8 miles south-east of Leicester city and 4.5 miles north of Market Harborough. The parish covers just over 1,100 acres.

The village sits in the hills just north-west above the River Welland. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the B664 arterial road north out of Market Harborough. Turn left at Weston by Welland and continue to Welham.
  
  
• There is a photograph of a street in the village at Leicester Villages.
  
  
• There is another photograph of a street in the village at Geograph, showing the Old Red Lion pub at the far end of the road.
  
  

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History

• The Saddington Reservoir was built between 1793 and 1797. The southern part lies in Welham parish. It was built as a catchment basin for the Grand Union Canal. The reservoir covers about 60 acres.
  
  
• The parish was largely used for grazing land.
  
  

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Manors

• The web page author could find no mention of a Manor House or Hall in his sources.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 7692.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The place was an ancient parish of Leicester county as well as a Civil Parish.
  
  
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• On 25 March, 1885, the parish was enlarged by gaining the Caudwell portion of Thorpe Langton Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1841	66
1871	73
1881	68
1891	60
1901	59
1911	61
1921	443
1931	39
1951	40
1961	45
2001	40

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in Weston-by-Welland in Northamptonshire.
  
  

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