Blackwater, River
parish:
county:
coords:
Nursling and Rownhams
Hampshire
SU3615
parish:
parish:
parish:
parish:
county:
Romsey Extra
Copythorne
Wellow
Melchet Park and Plaitford
Hampshire
otherwise: welewe, 672-12
WELLOW, stream and parish/manor, later two parishes, later reunited
This seems to be an old name for the river BLACKWATER, and may be the 'Velox' recorded in the 6th century Ravenna Cosmography (Coates 1981: 69). The name recurs in that of the 'Wellow' in Somerset. It may represent a hypothetical British 'ueluo-'; this would be the source of Welsh 'gwelw' an adjective now translated 'pale blue' but originally meaning 'colour of milk as it begins to ferment'. Ekwall on thge other hand derives it from a root meaning 'turn', and conjectures that the Wellow is the 'turning' river. But there cannot be many streams in the South Country that have no bends. If the Ravenna form belongs here, the British name is rendered into Latin as if meaning 'velox'='swift'.
Domesday Book implies there is one manor. There are two medieval parishes, distinguished as 1310 'Estwelewe' and 1461 'Westwelwe'.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- river - Bedbridge Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
- river - Hampshire
- river - Hantshire
- river
- Southampton
- river - Southamtoniae
otherwise: Wellow, River
runs 7m through East Wellow and West Wellow to River Test near Nursling
