A single wide main street with the foundations of house sites on either side. The rows of houses are very clear set in a line parallel with the street. (1)

Welton was originally a member of the barony of Prudhoe, but had been alienated to Tynemouth Priory by the late 12th century. Eight taxpayers were recorded in the Lay Subsidy of 1296.
The vill was held by the Welton family in the 16th century. The estate was forfeited to the Crown in the later 16th century after William Welton's involvement in the northern rebellion of 1569. At that time the township contained seven tenants, each with a tenement 'aedificatum', and two others who held between them three cottages. Within the next two centuries the agrarian organisation of the ownship was transformed. In 1777 only four holdings were recorded, three had steadings on the village site. The largest farmhold, Hall Farm, was split in two parts some time later. All five holdings were shown on a plan of c.1830.
By 1839 the South Farm had disappeared, split between Town and Hall Farms. Since then East Farm has been amalgamated with Hall Farm. There are now two farmsteads and a house at Welton.
The earthworks and crofts are distinct, and comprise about ten holdings running east-west between Hall Farm and Town Farm south of the road. To the south, east and north the village is bounded by ridge and furrow. The field to the west of Town Farm contains no ridges or village earthworks.
The Hall Farm is derived from the manor and demesne of Welton (NZ 06 NE 19) (2).

Welton. NZ 065676. Survey work by Department of Archaeology, Newcastle University, of the north east and east parts. Hall building and pele tower respect the symmetry of the croft-and-toft earthworks. Parts of presumably medieval earthworks overlain by slight ridge and furrow. (3)

Scheduled. (4)

Aerial photographs take in 1947 show an extension of the street through the village. It continues eastwards towards the area now occupied by the reservoirs. A watching brief undertaken during construction of a water pipeline at the eastern end of this trackway in 2001 failed to find any trace of it. (5)(6)

(NZ 063 674) Welton DMV. Listed under 'Sites with best visible remains of houses'. (7a)

NZ 063 674. Deserted village of Welton. Scheduled No ND/415. (7b)

Welton (NZ 065 676). Measured survey of the DMV was carried out by students of the Dept of Archaeology, Newcastle. The NE and E parts of the settlement were covered. The hall building and pele-tower (NZ 06 NE 19) respect the symmetry of the croft-and-toft earthworks. Parts of the presumably medieval earthworks are overlain by slight ridge-and-furrow garden features. Survey continued in the next season on the S part of the site. Ridge-and-furrow and a probable water-control system were recorded. The rectilinear village plan both overlies and is overlain by ridge-and-furrow; broad rig is cut by a bank and ditch interpreted as a leat, but split by narrower ridges which respect the leat. Detailed structural analysis of the Hall was carried out at the same time. (7c-d)

The earthworks of the Medieval village of Welton were seen as described by previous authorities and mapped from air photographs. (7e)