Wellington Heath, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Wellington Heath, a hamlet and a parish in Herefordshire, 2 miles N of Ledbury, with a post office under Ledbury; money order and telegraph office, Ledbury. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1840. Population, 419. There is a parish council of six members and a chairman. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £299 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church was enlarged in 1878.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wellington Heath are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: