Wellington, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1913

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913

WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON, is a parish and village, delightfully seated in a vale, on the Leominster and Hereford Road, and bounded on the east by the River, 2½ miles north-by-west from Moreton Station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (Great Western and London and North Western joint) railway, 5½ north from Hereford, in the southern division of the county Grimsworth Hundred, Hereford Union, petty Sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Weston, and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. Under Local Government Board Orders (1884 and 1887) detached parts of Marden and Dinmore were transferred to this parish. The church of St. Margaret, formerly dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells; The tower was restored in 1912 at a cost of £460, and in 1913 the bells were rehung at a cost of £200: In the chancel there is a brass monument to Sir Herbert Perrott kt. D. 1682: The church, with the exception of the tower, was restored in 1887 at a cost of £1,400, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Nicholson F.R.I.B.A. architect, of Hereford, and affords sittings for 300 persons.. The Register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, commuted at £200 with 12 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Ernest Halden Beattie, M.A. of Queens College, Oxford. Six almshouses for aged men, were endowed in 1682 by Sir Herbert Perrott kt. with £30 yearly, arising from tithes: these being sold, the proceeds were invested in the purchase of consols, but are now (1905) invested in Cardiff Corporation Stock, and produce an income of about £29, of which £12 is devoted, according to the founder's will, to education, and the remainder to the benefit of the almspeople: There are other charities also of about £20 yearly value, arising from land and houses left in 1621 by William Nott and others: The almshouses were thoroughly restored in 1887 at a cost of £690, being the accumulation of the income of this aid and the other parochial charities from the years 1873 to 1888. Mr. William Hayes, John Colbatch Clarke esq. solicitor, of Brighton, Mrs. St John, of Dinmore Manor House, are the principle landowners. The soil is red loam; subsoil, gravel. The land is very fertile, and produces apples, hops, wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas and swedes. The area is 3,046 acres, rateable value, £6,373; and the population in 1911 was 641 in the civil and 608 in the ecclesiastical parish.

   Parish Clerk.- Henry Wall

   POST & M. O. & T. OFFICE.- Miss Eva Whitman, sub postmistress. Letters arrive from Hereford, 7.35 a.m. and 4.35 p.m.; despatched thereto at 5.5 p.m. no delivery or despatch on Sunday.

   PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (mixed), built in 1872 & enlarged in 1897, for 170 children, average attendance, 138; Joseph Vaughan Davis, master; Mrs Mary Davis, infants mistress.

   The school is controlled by 6 managers, appointed 1903; Richard Langford, chairman; Rev. E. H. Beattie M.A., The Vicarage, Wellington, correspondent

   Police Station.- John Evans, constable

   Carrier to Hereford.- Mrs. Woodhouse & Mrs. Jordan, Wednesday and Saturday.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Allen James, Water Villa	Hayes William
Beattie Rev. Ernest Halden, M.A., Vicarage	Homer Richard, Marsh
Colbatch-Clark Henry, L.R.C.P. Lond.	Moscrop Frederick
Day Miss, The Harbour	Partridge Arthur Frederick, Holmesdale
Edwards Jeremiah Harris, The Stocks	Turner Mrs., The Old Vicarage
Fell Richard Latham, Adzor House
COMMERCIAL
Aldridge Thomas, carpenter & wheelwright, undertaker, & cider maker	Jones John Thomas, farmer, Court Farm
Baker William, carpenter & wheelwright	Jordan Charles, farmer
Ballinger Edward, farmer,	Kennedy Francis, farmer
Bowcott Henry, grocer	Lane William, farmer
Bowden Wm., Thomas, cider maker	Langford Edwin James, farmer, fruit grower & cider & perry maker, Parsonage Farm
Colbatch-Clark Henry, M.R.S.C. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. Surgeon, The Vinery	Langford John. Farmer,
Cooke Edmund, general smith&	Langford William Henry, farmer
Daniel Arthur, farmer	Paske Harry, farmer, Wootton farm
Davies David (Mrs.), miller, (water)	Powell John Herbert, farmer
Edwards Walter, farmer	Price Brothers, grocers
Follis Edward, farmer, Marsh	Probert John, farmer
George James, farmer,	Reece Edward, farmer
Grimmer Joseph Alfred, Bridge Inn; accommodation for cyclists & motorists & good stabling	Rogers George, farmer
Gwilliam Arthur Beach, beer retailer; accommodation for cyclists & good stabling, New Inn	Stonyer William Edward, shopkeeper
Gwilliam W. & Son, wheelwrights, joiners, undertakers, sawyard, & cider maker	Strangward William, farm bailiff to E. W. Langford esq.
Higgins William, horse dealer	Williams Thomas, boot & shoe maker

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1913 in Hereford Central Library]