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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wellow like this:
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.
Wellow is now part of BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wellow itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wellow, in Bath and North East Somerset and Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13374
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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