[2] The land surrounding Welton le Wold has been subject to intermittent human inhabitation for hundreds of thousands of years.

Four flint hand axes discovered in a sand and gravel quarry near Welton le Wold between 1969 and 1973[3] indicate that the area was once inhabited by archaic humans, probably in the middle Pleistocene, some 400,000 years ago.

[4] A much later Neolithic settlement, perhaps as early as 2,000 BCE, is evident from the bronze age Bowl Barrow north of Warren Farm[5] while a 2nd to 4th century Roman villa at Welton le Wold is betrayed by soil and crop marks and the significant quantity of Roman artefacts and coins found in the area.

[4] Welton is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as consisting of 57 households[6] and excavation of Medieval earthworks in the village also revealed evidence of buildings occupied in the 11th to 14th centuries, coinciding with the oldest components of St Martin’s Church.

[7] The parish church is a Grade II* listed building dedicated to Saint Martin, dating from the 14th century and restored in 1849 by S. S. Teulon.