$1,050,000
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2 Firella Place
Wellesley · 4 bd · 4+2 ba · 3,813 sq ft
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Wellesley Village: The village that gathers at the pond.
Wellesley keeps life at walking pace: a mill pond with a trail around it, a main street that knows your order, a rink that fills on Friday nights, and the sweet smell of apple butter every fall. Fifteen to twenty minutes from Kitchener-Waterloo and a full gear slower.
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The community
Small village, full calendar.
Apple butter and cheese country, literally: the village festival celebrates both every fall. Rolling farmland, a millpond at its heart, and some of the region's most peaceful country living.
The pond at the heart of it
Wellesley gathers at its pond the way other towns gather on a main street. Dammed on a creek in the 1840s to power the mills, it now anchors the Albert Erb Conservation Area, with the Mill Pond Trail looping its banks, model boats racing on summer evenings, lines in the water for the Lions Club Fishing Derby, and dogs walking their people at dusk. Geography made it the centre of the village; the village made it the centre of everything else. Swans, ducks and geese glide across the water, and benches look out over the pond from the park beside it.
A main street that keeps you local
The core is compact, but it covers the essentials with character to spare: a hearty breakfast at Schmidtsville Restaurant, proper espresso and artisan finds at Grammy's Boutique & Espresso Bar, and Wellesley Brand Apple Products still making the apple butter that made the village famous, as it has for generations. Along Queen's Bush Road and Nafziger Road, nineteenth-century brick homes and storefronts stand beneath tall old trees, and the grain mill built in 1856 still stands in the village.
Applejacks Fridays
Winter life runs through the arena, and Friday nights belong to the Wellesley Applejacks. It's small-town hockey exactly as you're picturing it, and it's even better in person.
Festival pride, worn lightly
On the last Saturday of September the village closes its main streets for the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival. It's the township's signature day, and Wellesley is ground zero. Classic cars, food stands, and the sweet smell of the village's own apple butter: it's the day Wellesley shows the region what it already knows about itself.
Live here
Five ways to live in one small village.
Wellesley is compact, but it offers a real choice: century homes near the pond, big-lot streets from the village's first growth spurt, newer premium streets around the school up north, low-maintenance townhomes on the southeast shoulder, and brand-new streets rising on the west side. Nothing is more than a few minutes from the water.
Village Centre
Everything radiates from Nafziger and Queen's Bush: the arena and community centre a block one way, the shops a block the other, and the path around the pond waiting at the bottom of the street. The homes here are the village's originals: century farmhouses and Victorians on generous, one-of-a-kind lots beneath century-old trees. If Wellesley has a front porch, this is it.
The Established Streets
Ringing the core are the streets Wellesley grew in the mid-1900s: bungalows, split-levels and roomy two-storeys set back on lots that would be the envy of any Kitchener-Waterloo block. Quiet and kept, with the pond, the arena and the after-supper stroll all a few unhurried minutes away. Out here, a yard still means something.
North Wellesley
North Wellesley is where the village has grown over the last fifteen years: premium family homes with open, modern layouts. Wellesley Public School sits at the heart of it, close enough that the school run happens on foot, and the countryside begins right past the last fence line. New-built comfort, village-built community.
Meadowbrook
On the village's southeast shoulder, Meadowbrook is Wellesley's newest way to stay: a private community of modern, energy-efficient townhomes built for lower-maintenance living. Lock the door, walk the pond loop, and let somebody else worry about the lawn. Village life, minus the chores.
Coming Soon to Wellesley
West of the village, Wellesley's next streets are taking shape in several new developments: modern single-family homes extending the village toward its sunset side. New builds, with the same short stroll to everything that makes the village tick.
Living here
Walking pace, on purpose.
Erbhaven, the village's newest habit
The Erbhaven Trails, opened in 2019, put eight acres of walking loops right inside the village. They're the go-to for morning hikes, lunchtime resets and dogs with opinions about routes. Between Erbhaven and the pond loop, the daily walk never gets old.
Close to Kitchener-Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo is fifteen to twenty minutes east: close enough for the office, the airport and the arena, far enough that evenings sound like crickets and rink ice instead of traffic.
Countryside in every direction
The village sits in some of Ontario's most beautiful farm country: rolling fields, treed fencerows, and back roads made for Sunday drives and long bike rides.
Events people actually attend
The village calendar is short on spectacle and long on turnout: derbies, fairs, rink nights and fundraisers. September brings the Wellesley Fall Fair and the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival, with street markets, coach rides, a classic car show and farm tours. Art Around the Pond fills the park with artisans' stalls in summer, and the Santa Claus Parade comes through in early December.
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1026 Doering Street
Wellesley · 2 bd · 1 ba · 1,217 sq ft
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$1,895,000
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1309 Queens Bush Road
Wellesley · 6 bd · 5+2 ba
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Listed by Easy List Realty Ltd.
$979,000
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102 Schweitzer Crescent
Wellesley · 4 bd · 3+1 ba · 4,043 sq ft
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$1,270,000
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62 Gerber Meadows Drive
Wellesley · 5 bd · 4+1 ba · 3,563 sq ft
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Listed by New Era Real Estate
$699,999
Listed 6 weeks ago
2157 Gerber Road
Wellesley · 2 bd · 2+1 ba
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Listed by Wilfred McIntee & Co Limited
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History
James Ferris founded Wellesley in 1845, and in 1847 John Schmidt expanded the dam site on the creek. The village was first laid out as Schmidtsville. When its post office opened in 1851, it was renamed for Richard Wellesley, the brother of the Duke of Wellington. Its mills, tannery and cheese factory made it the largest business centre in rural Waterloo County, and Wellesley Apple Products was founded in 1922.
The homes
The 2021 census counted about 1,220 homes in Wellesley. More than eight in ten are single detached houses. Semi-detached houses make up about one in thirteen, and the rest are apartments in low buildings and row houses. More than half of the homes were built after 2000, and the busiest years were 2006 to 2010. About one in seven were built in 1960 or earlier, and about a quarter between 1961 and 2000.
Getting around
Wellesley is about 24 km by road from Uptown Waterloo, a drive of about 25 minutes, by Gerber Road, Notre Dame Drive and Erb Street West. Nafziger Road (Regional Road 5) runs south to Highway 7/8 between Baden and New Hamburg. Highway 401 at Homer Watson Boulevard is about 38 km away by Highway 7/8 and Kitchener's Conestoga Parkway. Grand River Transit does not yet serve the township. The Region has consulted on a route along Regional Road 5 and Lobsinger Line through Wellesley, St. Clements and Heidelberg. The ErbHaven Trails and the paths beside the pond are in the village.
Parks and daily life
The Albert Erb Conservation Area, the old mill pond, has benches, a playground and a viewing area over the water. Summer evenings bring model boat races, and the Lions Club fishing derby is held on the pond on Labour Day Monday. The Township of Wellesley Recreation Complex, at 1401 Queen's Bush Road, has:
- the Bill Gies Recreation Centre arena;
- a fitness centre with an indoor walking track;
- a fully accessible playground built in 2023;
- an all-wheels skate park and two soccer fields;
- a six-hole disc golf course.
The village also has a splash pad on Maple Leaf Street, a dog park on Catherine Street and the Don Green Memorial Playground on Nafziger Road. The Region of Waterloo Library's Wellesley branch is at 1137 Henry Street.
Schools
- Wellesley Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public elementary school for the whole village, on Queen's Bush Road.
- Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for the village, on Snyder's Road West in Baden.
- St. Clement Catholic Elementary School — JK to Grade 8. The nearest Catholic elementary school, in St. Clements, about 10 km away.
- St. David Catholic Secondary School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school that St. Clement students go on to, on High Street in Waterloo.
Attendance boundaries, not distances. Confirm with the board's school finder.
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