Wellington, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1929

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929

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 Leominster 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 6 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, net yearly value and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Hereford, and held since 1915 by the Rev. Charles Pool Lee, M.A. of Keeble 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. The Parish has a fine Memorial Hall capable of seating 400, which is used for meetings of all descriptions; the hall is vested in the Parish Council. There are numerous 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 of land and 14 of water, and the population in 1921 was 625 in the civil and 600 in the ecclesiastical parish.

   Parish Clerk.- Henry Wall

   POST & M.O., T. & T.E.D OFFICE. - Letters from Hereford

   Police Station

   Conveyance to Hereford.- Midland Omnibus Motor Service, Wed. & Sat.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Colbatch-Clark Henry, The Vinery	Morris Edward, Holmesdale
Follis Edward Harry, Adzor House	Moscrop Frederick, Wellington House
Griffiths Mrs., The Harbour	Mucklow Mrs., Water Villa
Lee Rev. Charles Pool M. A. (vicar), Vicarage	Taylor James D., Norton House
COMMERCIAL
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over
Ballinger Edward, farmer,	Langford Edwin James, farmer, fruit grower & cider & perry maker, Parsonage Farm
Bowen William Thomas, cider maker	Langford Jn. Farmer, Brick House
Colbatch-Clark Henry, M.R.S.C. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. Surgeon, The Vinery	Morris Arthur E., garage
Cooke Edmund, general smith& [Ed: sic]	Nash Alfred, shopkeeper
Corner Roy N. poultry farmer, breeder of White Leghorns & White Wyandottes & of Alsatian wolfhounds, Wellington Poultry Farm	° Powell John. Herbert, farmer, Burghope House
Cousins George, shoeing & general smith	° Price Charles P. farmer, Church Farm
Daniel Arth., farmer	Rawlings Archd. Jas. Farmer, Ashley Farm
Follis Brothers. millers, Wellington Mill	° Reece Edward & Sons, farmers, Bridge & Court Farms
Follis Eliz. E., (Mrs.), Rose & Crown Inn	Strangward William, farm bailiff to E. W. Langford esq.
Gwilliam & Jay, wheelwright, joiners & undertakers	Vickerman Jn. Wilfred, poultry farmer
° Hoddell Jas. Ernest, farmer, Wootton Farm	Waltham Harry E., New Inn
Jones William Charles, butcher	Ward Edward, farmer
Jordan Chas. (Mrs.), farmer	Watkins Samuel, farmer
Lane William, farmer

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929 in Hereford Central Library]