WELLINGTON is a parish and village pleasantly situated in a valley on the Leominster and Hereford road, distant about 5½ miles N. of Hereford, 7 S. of Leominster, and 8 E.S.E. of Weobley; is in Grimsworth hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Bodenham polling district. The Shrewsbury and Hereford railway passes through the parish; the Moreton and Dinmore stations on that line are within 2 miles of the village. The population in 1861 was 626; in 1871, 651; inhabited houses, 156; families or separate occupiers, 169; area of parish, 2,538 acres; annual rateable value, £6,463. The Rev. William Trevelyan Kevill Davies, of Croft castle, near Leominster, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Rev. W.T. Kevill Davies, Thomas Clark, Esq., Rev. Thomas King, Herbert George Goldingham, Esq., J.J. Bush, Esq., Rev. H.F. St. John, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the representatives of the late John Harris, Esq. The soil is red loam, with a gravelly subsoil; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, hops, fruit, and roots. Wellington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston; living, a vicarage; value, £315, with residence, and there is a prebendal farm, belonging to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, of 481 acres, also half an acre of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; vicar, Rev. Thomas Shepherd, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1838, and is also a surrogate for the diocese.

The church (St. Margaret's) is an old stone edifice in the Norman and Early English styles of architecture, and is in great need of restoration. It consists of nave, chancel, two aisles, south porch, and square tower containing five bells. In the chancel is a brass monument to the memory of Sir Herbert Perrott. There is an endowed school for boys and girls known as "Nott's and Perrott's Charity School". New school buildings to accommodate 114 children have been recently erected. The present average attendance is about 90. There are six almshouses, founded by Sir Herbert Perrott in 1682, for aged men, with an endowment of £20 per annum, and a new pair of shoes and a coat for each. There are additional charities amounting to £15 yearly belonging to the parish. The Plymouth Brethren have a meeting house here. Burghope, now a farm-house in this parish, was formerly the seat of the ancient families of Goodyere and Dinely. It was a fine mansion having ancient mullioned windows, with projecting pointed gables, and curious picturesque chimneys. Sir John Dinely, the last baronet of the family, sold it to Governor Peachey, afterwards Lord Selsea, about a century ago. Amborough, or Auberrow, is a hamlet.