WELLINGTON, a parish in the district and county of Hereford; 2 miles NNW of Moreton r. station, and 5½ N by W of Hereford. It has a post-office under Hereford. Acres, 2,538. Real property, £4,852. Pop., 626. Houses, 150. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford-Value, £626.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was rebuilt in 1863, at a cost of £5,000; and is in the early English style. There are an endowed school with £19 a year, alms houses with £30, and charities £8.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))