West Wellow
| West Wellow | |
| Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 Post Office on Salisbury Road, West Wellow | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU288191 |
| Location: | 50°58’15"N, 1°35’24"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Romsey |
| Postcode: | SO51 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Test Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Romsey |
West Wellow is a sizable village in the south-east of Wiltshire, spreading north of the A36 Salisbury to Southampton road. It smaller sister, East Wellow is the original village and still has the parish church: it stands to the north-east, across the River Blackwater which forms the border with Hampshire.
Just to the south of West Wellow is Canada, a hamlet just inside the New Forest boundary. It can only be reached by public road from the roundabout on the A36 at West Wellow.
About the village
West Wellow is essentially a modern development which has left its parent village, East Wellow, to remain merely a hamlet. 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 petrol station, village hall, recreation ground and Wellow School.
There is a public house, the Red Rover, on the A36 and another, the Rockingham, in Canada.
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.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about West Wellow) |
