The moshav was founded on 6 December 1949 by demobilised Palmach soldiers and repatriants from Romainia, and was initially named Nahal Reuven, but was later renamed in honour of Josiah Wedgwood.
Apart from the French author Émile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.
Josiah Wedgwood V (1899–1968), grandson of Clement Wedgwood and son of Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, was managing director of the firm from 1930 until 1968 and credited with turning the company's fortunes around.
Baron | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Wedgwood | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Josiah Wedgwood | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon |