There is evidence that a windmill existed on the east side of the cottage called Windmill on Church Lane from approximately 1788.

Records show that on 16th October 1798 a fire insurance policy was taken up with Royal Exchange by John Wilmore, surgeon of the city of Worcester. The policy described the windmill as brick and timber built, situate at Wellington Heath in the county of Hereford, £300. The 1871 census for Wellington Heath also records a corn miller living in the village.

Herbert Simmons, the mill historian, recorded in his notes for Wellington Heath: ‘April 6th 1885, For Sale (Bargain) by the mortgagees, Windmill on brick round house with patent sails working two pairs of French stones and one grey stone. Also House and storehouse. The estate is Freehold and a large and excellent business was carried on there by the late Mr Ingram for many years. Price £1,000 being about one fourth the original cost. Address: Clark, Sudbury, Williams and Green, Ludlow.’

However the 1887 Ordnance Survey map for Wellington Heath shows no symbol for a windmill on Church Lane so it is possible the purchaser demolished the structure between 1885 and 1887.

There is a watercolour painting by David Cox executed around 1813 and entitled ‘Windmill Herefordshire’ ,currently owned by the British Museum, which might be the Wellington Heath windmill  (See below left). 

The painting depicts a post mill with cloth covered sails, having a conventional roundhouse, also a ladder and tailpole supported on a cartwheel. To the right is a horse and cart with a driver and a miller's house or farm building with two dormer windows and a large chimney. In the middle distance is the gleam of a river and in the background are relatively low hills.

Whilst this description is fairly convincing the painting shows different local topography. Unless David Cox used “artistic licence” to create his work in 1813 it has to be ruled out as definitive. 

Further research is needed into the Wellington Heath windmill to determine its historic authenticity.