Wellow, Somerset
Historical Description
Wellow, a parish, with a village, in Notts, 6½ miles SW of Tuxford station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Newark; money order and telegraph office, Ollerton. Acreage, 1001; population, 323. Lord Savile is lord of the manor and chief landowner. Jordan Castle was a fortified seat of Sir Jordan Foliot. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £60 with residence. Patron, Lord Savile. The church is in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower, and was restored in 1878. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, Wellow, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village has a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway, 138 miles from London, and 5 S of Bath; and also a post and telegraph office under Bath; money order office, Peasedown St John. Acreage of the civil parish, 5387; population, 1430; of the ecclesiastical, 1144. There is a parish council of eight members and a chairman. A Celtic cemetery is at Stony Littleton, and a well-preserved Roman villa on the Hayes. A fair is held on 17 Oct. for sheep. Earl Temple is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £165 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Late Perpendicular style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Somersetshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Wellow St. Julian | |
Hundred | Wellow | |
Poor Law union | Bath |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Somerset Archives & Local Studies, have images of the Parish Registers for Somerset online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wellow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wellow (St. Julian))
Maps
Online maps of Wellow are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Somerset papers online:
- Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
- Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser
- Western Gazette
- Wells Journal
- Somerset County Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Somersetshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.