Wellow (Wellhagh or Welhawe)
"WELLOW, a parish, with a village, in Southwell district, Notts; 6¼ miles SW of Tuxford r. station. It has a post-office under Newark. Acres, 991. Real property, £1,615. Pop. in 1851, 597; in 1861, 468. Houses, 114. The decrease of pop. was caused by depression in the chair manufacture. The manor belongs to the Earl of Scarborough. W. Hall is the seat of W. S. Ward, Esq. Jordan Castle was a fortified seat of Jordan Foliot. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The church is chiefly of brick, and recently was bad. There are two Methodist chapels, an hospital and dispensary, and charities £9."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
Caution: There is another parish called Wellow in Somerset county. Make sure you are researching the correct one!
- The parish was in the Kneesall sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2474 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2710 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithin (Swithen).
- The church was built in the Norman period.
- The church was partly rebuilt and thoroughly repaired circa 1815.
- The church was restored in 1878.
- There is an excellent history of this church at the Southwell Church History Project website.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1546.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1622-1839.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell (or Worksop, depending on source).
- The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1847.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here by 1881.
- The parish was in the Kneesall sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This parish, township and village lie only 1 mile ESE of Ollerton. The parish covers 1,001 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A616 northwest out of Newark toward Ollerton. Just past Ompton, the road takes you through the center of Wellow.
- About a mile west of the village is Lake Rufford and the surrounding park.
- Grimston Hill is a mile southeast of the village at was reputedly a village at one time.
- Many people in the parish were wood turners and chair makers. Others cultivated hops.
- There is a local legend of the hamlet of Grymston, which was swallowed up by an earthquake. The "Grymston Ghost" is used to frighten children.
- Wellow Hall was a large mansion situate at the entrance to the village from Ollerton. In 1853, William Squire WARD, a surgeon, was the owner and resident. Dr. WARD operated a District Hospital and Dispensary in the west side of the hall. It is unknown if any records have survived. Thomas Middleton WILLIAMS was the assistant surgeon.
- Jordon Castle is the embattled manor house of Grymston, formerly the property of one Jordon FOLIOT.
- The national grid reference is SK 6767.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
- The parish covered 991 acres in 1881, but this increased to 1,001 acres by 1891.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1851 |
597 |
| 1861 |
468 |
| 1871 |
406 |
| 1881 |
368 |
| 1891 |
323 |
| 1901 |
290 |
| 1911 |
251 |
| 1921 |
302 |
| 1931 |
381 |
| 1951 |
324 |
| 1961 |
347 |
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[Last updated: 21-February-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
