Wellow

Other current and historical names

Welige

Built-Up Area: Wellow
Parish/Community: Shalfleet
Unitary Authority: Isle of Wight
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°41'30"N 1°27'14"W
Eastings/Northings: 438665, 88150
OS Grid: SZ386881
Mapcode Local: GBR 78Z.K7H
Mapcode Global: FRA 77V7.TLR

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wellow within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wellow in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wellow, hamlet, Isle of Wight, 2½ miles SE. of Yarmouth.

Wellow in the Domesday Book

A village in Bowcombe hundred, in the county of Hampshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Cuthwulf
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: King William
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1066; £10 in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 3 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 6 acres

British Place Names

Wellow, Isle of Wight

Wellow is a village in Wellow , Isle of Wight

Wellow in historic gazetteers

Wellow in the Domesday Book