Spring Walk in a Quaint Little Village | WELTON, ENGLAND.

This walk takes us through Welton, a picturesque village with a mill pond, an ancient church and a famous pub. Situated just outside Hull, Welton could well be described as the gateway to the Yorkshire Wolds.
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It is here in the historic Green Dragon pub, set in a 17th Century coaching inn, that the famous highwayman Dick Turpin was captured. A copy of the record of his capture displayed in the pub shows that he was posing as a horse dealer called John Palmer. After stealing some horses from Lincolnshire he decided to stop at the pub for refreshment, where he got into an argument and shot a local gamecock. After being apprehended by the police he was unmasked as Turpin and was later tried and hung in York.

St. Helen’s church is thought to be around 900 years old, dating from the time of William Rufus, King of England (1087-1100). Restored several times throughout its long history, a substantial restoration in a 13th-century gothic revival style took place in 1862 by George Gilbert Scott.

Passing by Mill Pond and the Wauldby Dam, this walk leads into the small but beautiful dale of Welton Dale, a dry valley formed in a periglacial phase when the chalk was frozen as surface flow of melted ice and snow cut through to create the valley we see today. Finally we walk through the Welton Wold Plantation where we find noisy tree fellers hard at work, before a quick visit to the domed stone monument known simply as the Raikes Mausoleum.

Hull banker Robert Raikes who lived at Welton Hall built the mausoleum for himself and his family in 1818. The land on which the mausoleum stands was consecrated by the Church of England in 1822 and part of this land was set aside as a burial ground for the parish of Welton. Deep below the mausoleum is a passageway that leads to a large vault. It contains 7 lead coffins, 4 adult shells and 2 baby shells. The 2 baby shells were desecrated and that of Elizabeth Raikes who died at the young age of 27. Her skull was stolen and found near the Humber Estuary.

Filmed on 18.03.2024

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0:00 start
0:38 St Helen's church
02:12 Welton pond
15:30 Wauldby Dam and Mill Pond
17:45 Lower Welton Dale
47:55 Welton Woods
49:00 The Raikes Mausoleum