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Whinwhistle Road in East Wellow: a typical street in this area, with houses set well back from the road and concealed behind large hedges and shrubs

Embley Park, now a school, was the family home of Florence Nightingale

The grave of Florence Nightingale in the churchyard of St. Margaret's Church

For other places with the same name, see Wellow.

Wellow, located at (50.9739, -1.5684) is a village 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 (6km) and the nearest city Southampton (13km). The village has a population of just over 3,000.

Confusingly, 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. 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 there. Only the name "Wellow" appears on Saxton's 1575 map of Hampshire, spelled "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 a Post Office, some small shops, a filling station, village hall, recreation ground and primary school. There is a public house, the Red Rover, on the A36 and another, the Rockingham, in Canada. The smaller East Wellow, approximately 1km to the south east, is mainly residential and includes an area shown as Blackhill on some maps. 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 was built. 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. East Wellow is also home to Carlo's, a popular ice cream parlour and tea shop.

The parish church of St. Margaret is a flint-faced stone structure consecrated in 1215 and the interior contains some wall paintings from this period. In 1251 Henry III of England granted a charter to Wellow to hold an annual fair on the eve of St Margaret's Day. A chancel was added in the Thirteenth Century and a south aisle in the Fifteenth Century, but the church is famous as the burial site of Florence Nightingale, whose family home was the nearby Embley Park, now a private school. St Margaret's is a destination for many visitors interested in Nightingale and the history of nursing. The church is some distance from the majority of the modern housing and there is no archaeological evidence that there was ever a substantial settlement close to the church.

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Embley Park located at is a historical country house close to the New Forest and the town of Romsey in Hampshire, which was one of the childhood homes of Florence Nightingale. In 1946 it was made into a boarding school and taught boys from the ages of 11-18.
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Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted statistician.
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Wellow could be one of these places in England:

Wellow, Hampshire
Wellow, Isle of Wight
Wellow, Nottinghamshire
Wellow, Somerset

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Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, (abbr. Hants), or the County of Southampton, is a county on the south coast of England.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Test Valley is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England, named for the valley of the River Test. Its council is based in Andover.

The borough was formed on April 1, 1974 by a merger of the boroughs of Andover and Romsey, along with Andover Rural
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Location Hampshire, United Kingdom
Nearest city Southampton
Coordinates
Area 571 km² (141,097 acres)
Established 1079
Total visitation 7.
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The A36 is a trunk road and primary route in England that links the port city of Southampton to the city of Bath. At Bath, the A36 connects with the A4 road to Bristol, thus enabling a road link between the major ports of Southampton and Bristol.
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M27 motorway

Length 0 miles (0 km)
Direction West - East
Start Cadnam
Primary destinations Romsey
Southampton
Fareham
End Portsmouth
Construction dates 1972 - 1983
Motorways joined 3 -
M271 motorway
4 -
M3 motorway
12 -
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Salisbury

Salisbury, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)

Salisbury shown within the United Kingdom
Population 45,000 (2006)
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Romsey

Arms of Romsey Town Council

Romsey ()

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City of Southampton
The Bargate, Southampton

Sovereign state United Kingdom
Constituent country England
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For other uses, see Parish council (US Catholic Church).

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In England parish councils
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Alfred (also Ælfred from the Old English: Ælfrēd /'æl.freːd/) (c. 849 – 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899.
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Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William I of England. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today.
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The hide, in some places referred to as a carucate, was a variable unit of land area used in medieval England, defined according to its arable yield and taxable potential rather than its exact dimensions.
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acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and US customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre.

One acre comprises 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet.
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The River Blackwater is a river in the English counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is a tributary of the River Test.

The river rises just to the east of the Wiltshire village of Redlynch. It then flows east across the county boundary into Hampshire.
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A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count.
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Not to be confused with Wilshire.

Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large English county in the South West England region of the UK.
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Thatching is the craft of covering a roof with vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather. It is probably the oldest roofing material and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates.
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Infill in its broadest meaning is material that fills in an otherwise unoccupied space. The term is commonly used in association with construction techniques such as wattle and daub, and civil engineering activities such as land reclamation.
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post office is a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sortation, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.^[1] Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies.
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A filling station, fueling station, gas station, service station or petrol station is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel.
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A village hall is a building within a village which is owned by and run for the local community. It is typically used for many functions such as parish council meetings, bowls club headquarters, community theatre, dance venue, jumble sales and more besides.
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A Recreation Ground as a generic term is a piece of land set aside for public recreation. One such set of public recreation grounds in the United Kingdom is a King George's Field.
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primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as primary or elementary education. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations
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public house, usually known as a pub, is an establishment which serves alcoholic drinks — especially beer — for consumption on the premises, usually in a cozy setting.
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A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.
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