Wellingrove, New South Wales
Wellingrove is a small village on Wellingrove Road, about 20 kilometres northwest of Glen Innes on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census it had 113 residents.
The town began in the 1840s when a 50,000-acre run was taken up by George Polhill and used as a local court site for the area. In 1849 the Woolpack Inn opened, and surveyor Galloway was asked to survey townships at Wellingrove and Glen Innes. Wellingrove was gazetted as a town in 1852 and for many years was an important settlement in northern New England.
The town declined after the court moved to Glen Innes in 1858, and the Wellingrove Hotel closed in 1917. Today the village has a church, a Rural Fire Service station, and a community hall in a Crown Land fossicking area where sapphires and zircons can be found. The main industry is sheep and beef cattle farming. Kings Plains National Park lies about 20 kilometres northwest of Wellingrove. Local news is provided by Glen Innes News, in print and online.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 16:43 (CET).