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East Wellow
East Wellow, Wellow |
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settlement
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parish:
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Wellow
Hampshire
SU3020
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HANTSLOC.t
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25inch County Series map -- Hants LVI.6 |
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Wellow
otherwise: welewe, 672-12
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Coates 1989
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'.
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old map
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E. Wellow
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
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Harrison 1788
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(HAR1SU21.jpg)
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domesday
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Weleve
Listed in Domesday Book
- Brocton Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
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Domesday Book 1086 (69.22)
TERRA TAINORV~ REGIS ... AGEMVND ten. de rege WELEVE . Ipsemet tenuit in
alodiu~ de rege E ...
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domesday
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Weleue
Listed in Domesday Book
- Brocton Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
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Moody 1862 (Domesday)
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