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Wellow Abbey was an abbey in Lincolnshire England. It was founded about 1110 by Henry I of England as a house of Austin canons. The date of foundation is not known precisely. It was also known as Grimsby Abbey.The last abbot was Robert Whitgift uncle of John Whitgift. The Abbey was dissolved in 1538 and he was given a pension.The abbey was built on a hill and its grounds covered around ten acres surrounded by a wall and ditch.