English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Welton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Sebergham

Historical Forms

  • Welleton 1272,1285,1305 For
  • Welton 1292 ib
  • (the spring of) Wellinton 1292 Pat.
  • Nether Welton 1760 PR
  • Neigh Welton 1772 ib

Etymology

'Spring tūn, v. w(i)elle.