West Wellow

West Wellow, Wellow
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Wellow
Hampshire
SU2919
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LVI.5

Wellow
otherwise: welewe, 672-12

refce: 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'.

old map
Wst. Wellow
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
(HAR1SU21.jpg)

old map
Wellow
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
refce: Badeslade 1742

old map
Wellew
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
(MRD2SU31.jpg)

old map
Wellew
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645 (perhaps)
- settlement, village - Thornegate Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
(BLA1SU31.jpg)

old map
Wellew
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611 (perhaps)
- settlement, village - Thornegate Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
(SPD1SU31.jpg)

old map
Wellew
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Thornegate Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
(NRD1SU31.jpg)

old map
Wellow
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
refce: Saxton 1575
(SAX1SU31.jpg)

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001