 The Church of St Helen is at the centre of the village, with a defunct mill pond to the north and west.Most of the village's housing is of brick, predominantly red, some painted or rendered in with most buildings two storied, either Georgian or Victorian in style.Welton was recorded in the "Doomsday survey" of the 11th century, then a small village with 53 persons recorded and no church, the name derives from the old English "wella" (spring) and "tūn" meaning "farm by the spring(s)"; the area is the site of several springs, (see also gipseys) including St Annes Well in the grounds of the former Welton House.