Welham is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

The village is situated on the north bank of the River Welland, which forms the border with the neighbouring county of Northamptonshire.

[3] Francis Edwards was the Lord of the Manor and he floated the idea of diverting the main London road over the River Welland via the bridge at Welham.

He rebuilt the houses on the north side of the road in 1720 and he had an Inn built based on the Red Lion at Northampton.

He had married well and when he died he made his daughter Mary Edwards the richest woman in England.

[5] She now had a son, Gerard-Anne Edwards, and when she died she was buried simply but beside her father in St Andrews Church in Welham.