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 Prebends

Early-attested site in the Parish of Welton

Etymology

Welton Prebends The manor of Welton was granted by William the Conqueror in prebendo as part of that king's endowment of Lincoln Cathedral, this being subsequently confirmed by William II and Henry I, v. RA i, 2–11, 25–6. The manor was divided into five prebends in the medieval period, cf. Owen, Church and Society in Medieval Lincolnshire 42.