page_title: Wellow, Hampshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wellow, Hampshire / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Embley Park, now a school, was the family home of Florence Nightingale. Français&#160;: Embley Park, aujourd'hui devenu une école, était la résidence de la famille de Florence Nightingale.
context_page_description: Wellow is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England that falls within the Test Valley district. The village lies just outside the New Forest, across the main A36 road which runs from the M27 motorway to Salisbury. The nearest town is Romsey 3 ³⁄₄ miles to the east, and the closest city is Southampton 9 miles to the south-east. The parish had a population of just over 3,300 in the 2011 census.
  Some people refer to the two villages of East Wellow and West Wellow individually, while others refer to them collectively as Wellow. There is no official administrative or political division which separates the two parts, and they share the same parish council, which also covers the small settlement of Canada. Canada is just inside the New Forest boundary and can only be reached by public road from the roundabout on the A36 at West Wellow.
context_section_description: King Alfred (d. 899) left "the toune of Welewe" in his will to his eldest daughter Ethelgifu. "Welue" is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) where it is recorded that Agemund had five hides of about 600 acres (0.94 sq mi; 2.4 km²) there.  Only the name "Wellow" appears on Saxton's 1575 map of Hampshire; it is spelt "Wellew" in various maps from the seventeenth century.  East and West Wellow appear separately by the time of John Harrison's 1788 map, separated by the River Blackwater. Their exact positions on these early maps are hard to reconcile with the modern road and settlement pattern, but until 1895 when the county boundary was realigned, West Wellow was in Wiltshire and East Wellow in Hampshire. 
  Most of the current housing dates from the twentieth century, with a few earlier buildings (notably some thatched cottages). There is continuing small-scale infill development. All the principal services are found in the larger West Wellow and include some small shops, a petrol station, village hall, recreation ground and Wellow School.  The school was originally funded by money from Florence Nightingale's family and bears a plaque recording that information. 
  There is a public house, the Red Rover, on the A36 and another, the Rockingham, in Canada.  The smaller mainly residential East Wellow is approximately one mile to the south-east of West Wellow.  Throughout the 1990s, there was discussion of various options for the construction of a Wellow bypass route to relieve the village of the increasing volume of traffic on the A36; but none of these were constructed. The northern boundary of the modern village is effectively the River Blackwater, and the surrounding area is agricultural.  The former Wellow Mill on the Blackwater was served by a complicated series of sluices to deal with changes in water level but was converted to a private residence in 1945, and no machinery remains.  Along the river are a series of lakes which form the site of Woodington and Whinwhistle fisheries.
caption: Hampshire Collegiate School, formerly Embley Park was the family home of Florence Nightingale
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