Included here are some suggestion for sources of information relevant to the history of the area. Others are provided on specific pages of the site.

Websites:

Victoria County History – entry for the parish of Welland

History of Birtsmorton, Castlemorton and Hollybush website

Hanley Castle and Hanley Swan Village website

Malvern Family History Society website

Maps:

Streetmap – Maps of Welland at various scales, including Ordnance Survey 1:25 000 and 1:50 000

National Library of Scotland – old maps of Welland

1628 survey map of Malvern Chase – Welland and Drake Street are marked. NB. West is at the top of the map, north to the right.

Books:

Mark Bowden, The Malvern Hills, an ancient landscape (English Heritage, 2005)

Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Worcestershire (Yale University Press, 2007)

Patrick Campbell, Plums to Persia: A Worcestershire Childhood Revisited (Aspect Design, 2023).
Patrick Campbell’s vivid and evocative account of growing up in Welland in the 1940s. Patrick is the son of Cecilia Campbell, who taught at Welland School for many years.

Christopher Dyer, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society, The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester 680-1540 (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

Della Hooke, The Anglo-Saxon landscape, The Kingdom of the Hwicce (Manchester University Press, 1985,2009)

Della Hooke, Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Charter-Bounds (Boydell Press, 1990)

Pamela A Hurle, Beneath the Malvern Hills, A History of the Village of Welland (1973)
Out of print but available from the library

Pamela A Hurle, The Forest and Chase of Malvern (Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 2007)

Brian S Smith, A History of Malvern (Alan Sutton and The Malvern Bookshop, 1978)
Out of print but available from the library

Active Research

The pages on our website have been prepared using a wide range of documentary sources, personal memories and visual observations such as landscape and architecture. These published pages represent only a part of our research and in many cases much more detail is available from which the published articles were produced.  As we further our research we are building a significant body of transcribed material for the parish of Welland which may be of interest for other researchers, including:

• Court Rolls
• Wills
• Rentals
• Glebe Terriers
• Hearth Tax Returns
• Land Tax Returns
• Dissenting Meeting House Registrations
• Overseers Accounts
• Constables Account Book
• Vestry Book
• 1828 Tithe Book
• Liquor Licences
• 1910 General Valuation Survey
• National Agricultural Returns

One of our number has also completed a dissertation: Chris Mesley, A Building History of the Parish of Welland up to 1847.

Please contact us on wellandhistorygroup@gmail.com if you are a researcher interested in discussing our material.