 "Welue" is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) where it is recorded that Agemund had five hides of about there.Only the name "Wellow" appears on Saxton's 1575 map of Hampshire; it is spelt "Wellew" in various maps from the seventeenth century.East and West Wellow appear separately by the time of John Harrison's 1788 map, separated by the River Blackwater.