Wellow, Somerset

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Wellow






Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	ST740583
Administration
District:	Bath and North East Somerset
Region:	South West England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Somerset
Services
Police force:	Avon and Somerset
Fire and rescue:	Avon
Ambulance:	South Western
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Bath
Postal district:	BA
Dialling code:
Politics
UK Parliament:	Wansdyke to be North East Somerset from next general election.
European Parliament:	South West England

Wellow is a civil parish in Somerset, England, about five miles south of Bath. It falls within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

It used to have a station on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, which closed in 1966, and a tunnel on the Radstock arm of the Somerset Coal Canal.

There is a low water crossing (Irish Bridge) and late mediaeval Packhorse bridge over Wellow Brook.^[1]

The parish church is dedicated to St. Julian and has origins before the 12th Century although the present building dates from 1372. It is a grade I listed building.^[2]

Nearby is the Hinton Hill site of Site of Special Scientific Interest.