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5 unusual facts about Wellow


International Nurses Day

At St Margaret's Church at East Wellow in Hampshire, where Florence Nightingale is buried, a service is also held on the Sunday after her birthday.

Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard

Upon the death of his uncle Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet in 1812, Howard adapted the surname of Molyneux-Howard and inherited the Molyneux estates of Teversal and Wellow.

Wellow, Hampshire

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.

Wellow, Nottinghamshire

An historian has claimed Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow were once known.

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.


Brotherhood of Ruralists

The group was founded when Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth moved to Wellow, having obtained permission to convert Wellow's disused Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station into a house.

Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet

On his death, as he was unmarried, his baronetcy became extinct and his estates at Teversal and Wellow passed to Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard.

Wellow Hundred

The Hundred of Wellow consisted of the ancient parishes of: Camerton, Charterhouse Hinton, Combe Hay, Corston, Dunkerton, Englishcombe, Farleigh Hungerford, Foxcote, Newton St Loe, Norton St Philip, Tellisford, Twerton and Wellow.


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