Welton was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Lincoln rural sanitary district which was in Lindsey - the Kesteven part forming the Branston Rural District. It was named after Welton.
It was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire.
Famous quotes containing the words rural and/or district:
“What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)