Welton Le Marsh is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (9.7 km) north east of the town of Spilsby

Spilsby

Spilsby is a market town and civil parish in Lincolnshire. England. The town is situated adjacent to the main A16 Trunk Road at the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds north of the Fenlands, east of the county town of Lincoln, north east of Boston and north west from Skegness.The town has...

 and about
5 miles (8 km) south of the town of Alford

Alford

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, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England

England

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. The hamlet of Boothby lies within the parish about
1 miles (1.6 km) east of Welton Le Marsh village.

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Martin

Saint Martin

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 and was medieval, but rebuilt in 1792 of stone and brick, and restored in 1891. It is a Grade II* listed building.

A Neolithic

Neolithic

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 flint axe and perforated stone hammer head were found here in 1948 and 1906 respectively. A Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 flanged axe was found just outside of the moated area at Hanby Hall Farm.

The remains of a motte castle

Castle

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 are located about 250 metres east of Hanby Hall Farm. The motte

Motte

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 is about five metres high, and surrounded by a ditch.

Thwaite Hall is a Grade II Listed building, reputedly part of a former Augustinian Priory

Priory

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 with attached cottage, now a house, dating from the 14th century. However, Lincs to the Past website describes it as: the site of an Augustinian Cell belonging to Thornton Abbey

Thornton Abbey

Thornton Abbey was founded as a priory in 1139 by William le Gros, the Earl of Yorkshire, and raised to the status of Abbey in 1148. It was a house for Augustinian or black canons. These priests lived a communal life under the Rule of St Augustine but also undertook pastoral duties outside of the...

 which was recorded in 1440 and which still existed in 1536, and there is some doubt as to the survival of the original buildings and/or features.

Welton Le Marsh has a local public house "The Wheel Inn".

Also within the parish is Candlesby Hill Quarry, a nature reserve

Nature reserve

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 which was once Gunby estate chalk pit. It is Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

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, or SSSI, maintained by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

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.