Welby

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

WELBY, a township and chapelry of scattered farm-houses, in the parish and from 2 to 3 miles N.W of Melton Mowbray, had only 62 inhabitants in 1871, living in 8 houses, on about 1165 acres of land, chiefly clay, with some gravel, and the surface rather hilly. Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory, Bart., owns most, of the soil, and is lord of the manor, which was held in 1751 by Cheverton Hartopp, and passed in marriage to Lord Howe, who sold it to Peter Godfrey, Esq. A large osiery bed here was lately a fish-pond. The CHURCH is a small ancient building without aisles, and has a small gabled tower containing one bell at the west end. The chancel has a good east window of Perpendicular work, and windows of a similar character on each side. In 1862 a new roof was placed over the nave, and new windows were inserted similar to those in the chancel. At the same time a new south doorway and porch were erected. The curacy is consolidated with Melton Mowbray vicarage, and the Rev. Charles Thomas J. Baines officiates.

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