Wellington is a cantonment town in the Coonoor sub-Division of Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu.
Maintained by The Madras Regimental Centre (MRC), it is today decked with display of a decommissioned Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) and a MiG 21 FL C-508.
TDK Pillai road leads from the War Memorial, past the Supply Depot, to Lower Coonoor.
The Wellington marsh lies in the valley bowl due north-west of the Military Hospital, below Waterloo Road.
Wellington Cantonment also houses The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), a premier tri-service training establishment that imparts training to field grade officers of the three wings of the Indian Armed Forces, friendly foreign countries and various Indian Civil Service departments.
The list of alumni of the DSSC at Wellington includes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Fijian strongman Sitiveni Rabuka, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, head of German special forces Hans-Christoph Ammon, Naval Commander Dhananjay Joshi and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India RN Malhotra.
The stretch hosts the local market, including a portion in the erstwhile Wood-Yard (now only the abbreviated WY remains in the numbers of the shops there).