Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WELLINGTON

WELLINGTON, a chapelry in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near Stoke r. station. It was constituted in 1845; and its Post town is Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 5,555. Houses, 1,144. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £290.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good; and there are dissenting chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stoke on Trent CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Wellington

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