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Wellington Florida is a small home town 'feel' place to raise horses, families and friends. Living in Wellington Florida is like living in Old Florida where mature trees provide the backround and imagry of  horse and rider riding off into the sunset come to mind. Below sunsets are children playing and friends walking or biking along the community trails and pathways.

Our Community is the Village of Wellington, our neighborhood is our Village.

Wellington is a bedroom community. Wellington Florida is a planned unit development. It is the developmemt. In short we call it a PUD. That means that everything basically was preplanned and established as to what will be allowed to be built and what not. We became incorpororated in March 1996 as a Village. We are called, the Village of Wellington. We have our own zip code however when you try to order something online or over the phone, most of the time this zip code still pulls up West Palm Beach not as Wellington.

But believe me, we might be a small town of only about 38,216 year round population in the 'Real Wellington' but we are a mighty famous place! We happen to be the Polo Capital of the world inspiring some of the best Polo Teams from around the entire world to compete at top levels. We are also home to the Winter Equestrian Festival drawing crowds of spectators as well as contestants from all over the world.

Attracting famous people to Polo and Equestrian events is commonplace in Wellington Florida. Prince Charles plays polo here. The actor, Tommy Lee Jones (from Men in Black) owns his own Polo team in Texas and spends much of the Equestrian season here in Wellington. Sylvester Stallone plays polo here too.

In fact we are so sought after of a place to live and play that during the boom of real estate builders would use our name, Wellington as part of a name of their new subdivisions they were building even it they were NOT in Wellington! You can drive down in West Palm Beach and Lake Worth and see the name Wellington being used as a marketing tool and you say to yourself, 'but that is not a part of Wellington'. There was also a rush for annexing into Wellington. Builders were swarming to be annexed in so they could use the name of Wellington. Some of these areas are really not a part of our town in a community form of speaking. Also, there are people who live on the border of Wellington and Lake Worth and they will tell you they live in Wellington.

Even real estate agents from as far away as Fort Lauderdale and Miami use the name of 'Wellington' in their marketing even though they are an hour away! We are only 14 miles away from Sunny South Florida beaches.

Wellington was named after C.Oliver Wellington who bought all this land back in the 1960's. Wellington did not start being developed until the late 70's. But most of the homes built here were built in the late 80's and 90's. It used to be all farmland, cow pastures and strawberry fields. For information about the developing of Wellington click here.

The total area of land that Wellington makes up is 28 square miles. This includes huge Equestrian ranches, Polo fields, Equestrian centers, homes, parks and schools. There may be a bit of a discrepency as to the actual size because of some outer areas annexing in so they could use the name Wellington.

Wellington has no downtown. We have no factories or industry. Most people who live here travel to work outside of Wellington. They leave in the morning and come back in the evenings. In the near future we are working to change that infrastructure. During the next 7 years there will some moves and ideas shaping on making Wellington able to produce income from revenue generated other than property taxes.

We get together for neighborhood and community events at our Wellington Recreation center or one of our Wellington village parks. There are summer concerts in the park and 4th of July fireworks. There is a Village of Wellington Easter egg hunt once a year and a holiday parade.

Click here to see our community built Tiger Shark Cove park, one of our most popular parks.

There are 2 high schools in Wellington Florida and 2 middle schools. We have A rated elementary public schools and a few top notch Private schools. We also have a very supportive community home school support groups.

We just had a wonderful new library built and welcomed a large Mall on the outskirts of Wellington's east border. Our community is our Village Of Wellington, our neighborhood is our Village. Stay tuned for many more posts on the highlights of the Village of Wellington Florida.

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