[5][15] Renowned philanthropist Sarah Greville, Countess of Warwick left £10 per annum to the vicar of Welton for delivering a lecture in the church every Sunday evening.

The school acquired comprehensive status in 1974, became grant-maintained in 1992, and as part of their trip to Welton in 1996, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited to open the new Humanities building.

In 2001 they achieved the distinction of having the best comprehensive school A-level results in England,[20] and in 2006 it received an outstanding award in every category in an Ofsted inspection, one of the best in the country.

[11][22][6] The village floral displays were planted in a purple, cream and green theme in 2018 to reflect the colours of the Suffragette movement, commemorating the 100th anniversary of when women first won the vote.

[25] In the immediate aftermath of the crash, there were calls for the Red Arrows to be barred from practising over populated areas, as the team had only been stationed at RAF Scampton for three years.

Many of Lincolnshire's members of parliament, including Gainsborough MP Sir Edward Leigh, insisted all families affected by the crash should be fully compensated.

[34] The Church of St Mary is by far the most well known landmark in the village, with its long, interesting history and numerous listed structures including the celebrated war memorial.

[5][36] The large cemetery to the south and east has likely been in use since as long as the church, though most graves from earlier than the 1700s have been lost to time, with tragically few surviving from even as far back as that.

Above and behind the baptismal font, on the west wall of the tower, hang the hatchments, the Royal Coat of Arms of King George III, dated 1838, which interestingly, in the year after William IV's death and Victoria's accession, do not carry the name of the monarch.

[39] On 17 September 2014, a Black Mulberry tree was planted in the churchyard by Charles Hood, Deputy Lieutenant on behalf of HM The Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in commemoration of those who served in the First World War.

It was unveiled by Col Herbert Gordon on 26 May 1923 to a crowd of Weltoners, with prayers by the Rev T Naylor, followed by the dedication by the Venerable Archdeacon Blackie, and singing.

[35][46][47] It is composed of Portland stone encased in Carrara marble[48] with leaded lettering,[49] and became Grade II listed on 21 June 1985, alongside other local monuments.

On 24 August 1922, authorisation was granted for the erection of the present memorial – a soldier of the Lincolnshire Regiment, in full battle dress, with reversed arms.

In order to be more easily accessible, a portion of the wall around the churchyard was removed and replaced by iron gates leading up to a series of stone steps.

[35] As part of the 2020s Bishop's Green development to the north of the village, many new streets used names from the memorial, such as Hodson, Twell, or Reed, using the corrected spelling.

The green is home to a mature lime tree, which was planted at the same time as an ornate cast-iron lamppost was erected in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

However, since it comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'wella,' meaning 'springing or bubbling waters or stream' a more likely origin would instead be the beck itself or the source at Old Man's Head spring just west of the village.

The chapel holds a Sunday worship, and their programme claims to include children's and youth clubs, men's and women's fellowships, Bible Study, a Prayer Group and many other social, community and church activities.

The village centre has been long appreciated for its picturesque and quintessentially English qualities,[peacock prose][3] with a multitude of Grade II or higher listed buildings, an abundance of green space, and the eponymous Welton Beck.

This was a tradition that involved decorating a local spring to act as a "thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessing of a bountiful supply of pure water to Welton".

White calico cloth on which a text taken from the bible was depicted was put into each arch by the men in the village early on Ascension Day morning.

For example, during a whooping cough epidemic in the village in the early 1900s, mothers took their prams containing the infants and stood them in the beck, believing that the germs would be carried away with the flow of the fresh water.

The south follows Horncaslte Lane from the A15, before cutting through the town of Welton and William Farr School until it meets up with a small stream which is followed most of the way to the Barlings Eau.

The northern boundary starts in the west at RAF Scampton's 1950s runway extension and follows a vague path through fields until once again reaching the Barlings Eau river near Snarford.

It was built out of gault brick with a slate roof, segmental headed windows, and a pointed arch doorway, probably as a replacement for a general meeting place that had been used since 1851.

[64] In the furthest east of the parish of Welton 3 km (2 mi) north-east of the main town is a small hamlet with less than twenty buildings, with attractions including the former Free Methodist chapel.

[65] Located in the far west just by the border of the Scampton civil parish, the area is barely even a hamlet, with the only notable landmark being Cliffe Farm.

The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is at RAF Scampton, less than 5 km (3 mi) to the south of the town centre.

Welton Library was refurbished in February 2008,[90] but moved from the premises of the Co-op beside the clinic in August 2015 due to legal complications,[91] only reopening at the Community Hub at Manor Park in March 2016.

There is a children's playground and the Sports and Social Club, where members play darts and pool as well as outdoor activities such as football and cricket.