There is no official administrative or political division which separates the two parts, and they share the same parish council, which also covers the small settlement of Canada.

[citation needed] Most of the current housing dates from the twentieth century, with a few earlier buildings (notably some thatched cottages).

The former Wellow Mill on the Blackwater was served by a complicated series of sluices to deal with changes in water level but was converted to a private residence in 1945, and no machinery remains.

The parish church of St. Margaret of Antioch is a flint-faced stone structure consecrated in 1215, and the interior contains some wall paintings from this period.

[4] In 1251 Henry III of England granted a charter to Wellow to hold an annual fair on the eve of St Margaret's Day.

[4][5] The church is notable as the burial site of Florence Nightingale, whose family home was the nearby Embley Park, now a private school.