Wellow, Hampshire
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Wellow 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 and is divided into East and West Wellow, approximately 1km apart. Housing dates primarily from the Twentieth Century, with a few earlier structures and some continuing small-scale infill development. All 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. The smaller East Wellow is mainly residential. The northern boundary of the modern village is effectively the River Blackwater and the surrounding area is agricultural. East Wellow includes some scattered houses to the north of the river, and includes the parish church of St. Margaret, which is the burial site of Florence Nightingale, whose family home was the nearby Embley Park, now a private school.
