WELLOW, a parish in the hundred of WELLOW,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (S.) from Bath, containing
817 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath
and Wells, rated in the king's books at £20. 6. 10.,
and in the patronage of Edward Gardiner, Esq. The
church, dedicated to St. Julian, was built by Sir Walter
Hungerford, about 1732. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. A railway from the Welton
collieries, communicating with the Avon and Kennet,
and the Radford coal canals, passes through the parish.
Ten poor children are educated for £10 a year, the
bequest of Rachael Coles, in 1756; and two for a rentcharge
of £2, the gift of Daniel Sumner, in ]699.
Among numerous other Roman relics discovered in the
neighbourhood, a tesselated pavement was found in
1644, another in 1670, and a third in 1685, with altars,
pillars, and fragments of paterae, and other vessels. At
the extremity of the parish is an immense barrow, called
Woodeborough, and another smaller one has been found
to contain several stone coffins.