WELLOW (EAST), a parish in the hundred of THORNGATE, Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (W.) from Romsey, containing with the tything of Embley, 288 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £5, and in the patronage of W. E. Nightingale, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.