Wellow Abbey was an abbey in Lincolnshire, England. It was founded about 1110 by Henry I of England,[1] as a house of Austin canons. The date of foundation is not known precisely. It was also known as Grimsby Abbey.[2]
The last abbot was Robert Whitgift, uncle of John Whitgift. The Abbey was dissolved in 1536, and he was given a pension.[3]
The abbey was built on a hill, and its grounds covered around ten acres, surrounded by a wall and ditch.[4] Buildings included a grange for the abbot and a kitchen, which was built above a spring that also supplied water to a mill at the base of the hill.[4] At dissolution, its possessions included more than seven hundred acres of land.[4]