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"WELTON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Daventry. It has a station at Crick, on the Birmingham section of the London and North Western railway. The village is situated on the ancient Watling Street, at the junction of the Grand Junction and Union canals, the former of which passes through a tunnel 1½ mile in length. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough, value £200, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, or to St. Martin. The register commences in 1578. There is a Baptist chapel, and National and Sunday schools. R. T. Clarke, Esq., is lord of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"WELTON, a parish in the hundred of Fawsley, county Northampton, 2 miles N.E. of Daventry. It has a station at Crick, on the Birmingham section of the London and North Western railway. The village is situated on the ancient Watling Street, at the junction of the Grand Junction and Union canals, the former of which passes through a tunnel 1½ mile in length. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Peterborough, value £200, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, or to St. Martin. The register commences in 1578. There is a Baptist chapel, and National and Sunday schools. R. T. Clarke, Esq., is lord of the manor."

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