Wellington is situated on the Canadian National Railway line approximately sixteen miles (26 kilometres) north of the city of Halifax.

Robert Fletcher received a grant of 250 acres in 1812, bordering the road from Halifax to Truro, and merchants of Halifax, James and William Cochran, received 500 acres each in the same year.

[2] There had been a previous settlement named Wellington in the 1820s along the Halifax – Annapolis military road of veterans who had served under the "Iron Duke" in the Peninsular Wars but it was abandoned about 1860 after large scale forest fires.

In 1836 there was a schoolhouse opposite Fraser's Inn on the Truro Road, and, in May 1936 a site was purchased for a new Junior High School.

Lumbering and farming were the basic industries for many years; now there is some tourism to Laurie Park which was opened in 1961.