Welford arm of the Grand junction Canal was opened early in 1815, it gathers the waters of the infant Avon. This is Shakespeare's Avon, just three and a half miles old from Naseby where it rises in Northamtonshire, close to the spot of the great battle of Nasbey one of the last of the bloody Wars of the Roses. 14/06/1645.
At this point the river forms the boundary between Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. Welford is metioned in the Doomsday Book as 'Wellesford'.
The Wharf Inn at the end of the canal arm used to be called the George in 1984, I'm not sure of when it got its present name.
