Wellow Parish
Wellow Parishcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3020
otherwise: welewe, 873-888; Weleue, 1086
- manor
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'.
Chapman, John & Seeliger, Sylvia: 1997: Guide to Enclosure in Hampshire: Hampshire Record Series: no.15: ref no.14152
Champman, John & Seeliger, Sylvia: 1997: Guide to Enclosure in Hampshire 1700-1900: Hampshire Record Series: no.15: ref no.14151
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