WELLOW, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Somerset. The village stands 3¾ miles W by S of Freshford r. station, and 4¾ S of Bath: and has a post-office under Bath, and a fair on 20 Oct. The parish contains also 8 hamlets, comprises 5,292 acres, and is in Bath district. Real property, £7,828; of which £590 are in mines. Pop., 1,087. Houses, 234. The manor be longs to W. G. Langton, Esq. A Celtic cemetery and a well-preserved Roman villa are at Littleton. Strawberries are extensively cultivated. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £380.* Patron, G. L. M. Starkie, Esq. The church was restored in 1845. There are a U. Free Methodist chapel and an endowed school with £12 a year.-The hundred contains 13 parishes. Acres, 21,613. Pop. in 1851, 10,348; in 1861, 9,783. Houses, 2,101.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))