Monument record 619 - Welton

Traces of former settlement, some visible on 1947 air photograph now destroyed. In the south east corner of the village at the bottom of Kiln Lane are rectangular platforms which may be house sites but which may also be kilns.

{1} Settlement Remains (SP 58156625, 581658, 58456565), formerly part of the village of Welton, lie in three places in and around the village. On air photographs taken in 1947 it is possible to trace the banks of closes which presumably once had houses within them. These were in two main places, at the top of the village in the area of the present playing fields, and down the hill to the S on the corner of Church Road. All have since been destroyed by redevelopment. In the SE corner of the village, at the bottom of Kiln Lane, some flat rectangular platforms still survive. These may be house-sites but are perhaps the remains of kilns.

{7} Constables Report 1666. Copied from a sheet in possession of R Clarke of Welton in 1872;

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.198 Site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP5865/001-2 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<3> BROWN A.E., Welton Village, (checked) (Plan). SNN105220.

<4> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, A/P (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1994 2354 4358) (Photographs). SNN104890.

<5> BROWN A.E., 1991, Early Daventry (An Essay In Early Landscape Planning), (unchecked) (Book). SNN57948.

<6> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central) (Archive). SNN112900.

<7> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/295/1 (Archive). SNN115.

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Feb 3 2025 8:43PM