WELLOW (East and West), two parishes in Romsey district, the former in Hants, the latter in Wilts; 3¾ and 4½ miles W by S of Romsey r. station. Post town, Romsey. Acres, 2,373 and 1,344. Real property, £1,856 and £3,194. But the acreage of East W. includes Dunwood extra-parochial tract; and the real property of West W. includes Bramshaw parish. Pop., 332 and 408. Houses, 61 and 103. The property is divided among a few. Embley Park is the seat of W. E. Nightingale, Esq. The livings are a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £245.* Patron, W. E. Nightingale, Esq. The church is good; and there is a Baptist chapel.

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