Wellington, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WELLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Grimsworth, county Hereford, 5½ miles N. of Hereford, its post town, and 2½ S.W. of Moreton railway station. The village is situated on the road from Leominster to Hereford, in a valley surrounded by hills, and is watered by a branch of the river Lug. The soil is a red loam upon a subsoil of gravel. The land is partly in apple orchards and hop-grounds. There is a prebendal farm of 49 acres belonging to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Hereford, value £250, in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains a brass of Sir Herbert Perrott. There is a small mixed school partly endowed, and a Sunday-school held in the church. The parochial charities produce about £60 per annum, including the endowments of Perrott's and Nott's almshouses for six aged men."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]