Wellow, Hampshire
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Wellow is a village and
Some people refer to the two villages of East Wellow and West Wellow individually, while others refer to them collectively as Wellow. There is no official administrative or political division which separates the two parts, and they share the same
History
Only the name "Wellow" appears on Saxton's 1575 map of Hampshire; it is spelt "Wellew" in various maps from the seventeenth century. East and West Wellow appear separately by the time of John Harrison's 1788 map, separated by the River Blackwater. Their exact positions on these early maps are hard to reconcile with the modern road and settlement pattern, but until 1895 when the county boundary was realigned, West Wellow was in Wiltshire and East Wellow in Hampshire.[citation needed]
Amenities
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Most of the current housing dates from the twentieth century, with a few earlier buildings (notably some
The smaller mainly residential East Wellow is approximately one mile to the south-east of West Wellow. Throughout the 1990s, there was discussion of various options for the construction of a Wellow
The former Wellow Mill on the Blackwater was served by a complicated series of sluices to deal with changes in water level but was converted to a private residence in 1945, and no machinery remains. Along the river are a series of lakes which form the site of Woodington and Whinwhistle fisheries.
Church
The
In 1251 Henry III of England granted a charter to Wellow to hold an annual fair on the eve of St Margaret's Day. A chancel was added in the 13th century and a south aisle in the 15th. A number of internal fittings come from a now demolished church at Sherfield English from where they were moved in 1860.[4][5]
The church is notable as the burial site of Florence Nightingale, whose family home was the nearby Embley Park, now a private school.[6] St Margaret's is a destination for many visitors interested in Nightingale and the history of nursing. The church is some distance from the majority of the modern housing, and there is no archaeological evidence that there was ever a substantial settlement close to the church.[citation needed]
Education
State-funded schools
- Wellow Primary School[7]
Independent schools
References
- ^ "Parish Profiles 2021". Parish Profiles 2021. Office for National statistics. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ Wellow in the Domesday Book
- ^ "Service marks centenary of Florence Nightingale's death". Diocese of Winchester. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ ISBN 9780300225037.
- ISBN 9780300225037.
- ISBN 0-85936-092-X.
- ^ Wellow Primary School, retrieved 23 August 2020