Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WELLOW, or Welhove

WELLOW, or Welhove, a hamlet in Great Grimsby parish, Lincoln; near Grimsby. An Augustinian canonry was founded here in the time of Henry I.; and was given, at the dissolution, to Sir T. Henneage.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Grimsby CP/AP       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: WELHOVE     |     WELLOW     |     WELLOW OR WELHOVE
Place: Wellow

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