Wellow is reputed to have the second largest acreage of registered common land north of Watford, over parts of which the Wellow toftholders still have grazing rights. The village is associated with Robin Hood. An historian has claimed Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow were once known. Thorotons History of Nottinghamshire volume 3by John Throsby 1796 P.199-203 'Welley, Grymston',