Welchman Hall Gully
Welchman Hall Gully is a glittering jewel set in the heart of Barbados
There is a gully, that of Welchman Hall's, that no one should omit to visit.
Rev J Moffat, 1866
From civil war to grapefruit – a history of the Gully
Welchman Hall Gully is named after its first owner, a former soldier from Wales called General William Asygell Williams. He was banished by Cromwell after losing at the Battle of Bristol in 1650 during the English Civil War.
He established a plantation here, which he named Welchman Hall. It was he who first developed the gully, adding many exotic trees and an orchard.
Welchman Hall Gully has at least two other claims to fame...
It is the home of the grapefruit, formed from a sweet orange and a shaddock, a large pomelo. You can sometimes see the grapefruit’s peel, discarded by the monkeys. The first reference to the grapefruit was in 1750, when it was described by Rev Griffith Hughes, a botanist, as the Forbidden Fruit of Barbados.
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