Wellow, Nottinghamshire
| Wellow | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 St Swithin's Church, Wellow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK669662 |
| Location: | 53°10’56"N, 0°59’38"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 470 (2011) |
| Post town: | Newark |
| Postcode: | NG22 |
| Dialling code: | 01623 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Newark and Sherwood |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Wellow is a village in Nottinghamshire. It has a village green and a maypole, which is still in use. On the east and south sides of the village are the remains of a defensive ditch, which originally encircled the village. To the south is the deserted mediæval village of Grimston, which now forms part of the Manor of Wellow. To the north east is Jordan Castle, a Norman ringwork consisting of a circular earthwork surrounded by a bank and ditch.[1]
The parish church, St Swithin is of the 12th century, and was restored, with a new chancel, in 1878–1879.
The 2011 census measured a population of 470.
Wellow also has, in Wellow Park, the largest remaining example of ash-wych elm woodland in Nottinghamshire.
History of The Lordship of the Manor of Wellow
The manors of Wellow and Grimston have anciently been held by the lords of Jordon Castle, and the lords of the manor of Wellow
In 1290 Richard Foliot, Knight of Jordon Castle had the rights of 'stallage' of the market and fair on St. Swithuns day valued at 40s yearly in Wellow.
Jordan Foliot, Baron de Foliot, Lord of Jordon Castle was granted the power to embattle his dwelling at Jordon Castle, he was the Lord of the Manor of Grimston, and Wellow, and of Besthorpe, with the Soc of Grimston, and its members, in Kirton Schidrintune, in Willoughby, and Walesby, in Besthorpe, and Carleton, and in Franesfeild.[2]
Cratley and Walesby have been held as Sub Manor of Wellow and Grimston.[3][4]
There was an assize in the time of King John, between the Abbot of Rufford, and William, son of Robert, and others, concerning Common of Pasture in Wellow and Grimston, The Abbot pleaded that they could not claim nor have any common of pasture in the pasture of the said Abbot, nor he in theirs, because the said lands and pastures were granted from lands of divers Baronies (or lordships) viz. of the Barony of Robert de Cauz, and the Barony of Gilbert de Gant, and that bounds were made between them, that neither Barony could have Common of Pasture in the other, and produced the letters of King John, which testified to these facts.[5]
Wellow is reputed to have the second largest acreage of registered common land north of Watford, over parts of which the Wellow toftholders still have grazing rights.
The village is associated with Robin Hood. A local historian has claimed Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow were once known.[6]
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References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1
- ↑ Welley, Grymston: Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3 (1796), pages 199–203
- ↑ Wellow, Nottinghamshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Wellow, Nottinghamshire in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Thoroton Society Record Series Vol XXX ,ed. C J Holdsworth, Rufford Charters, Vol 2, p.199-203.
- ↑ Molyneux-Smith, Tony. 1998. Robin Hood and the Lords of Wellow. Nottingham: Nottingham County Council Leisure Services Department
