Leamington Hastings

Coordinates: 52°18′12″N 1°20′50″W / 52.303425°N 1.347302°W / 52.303425; -1.347302
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Not to be confused with Leamington Spa or Hastings.

Leamington Hastings
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRUGBY
Postcode districtCV23
Dialling code01926
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Warwickshire
52°18′12″N 1°20′50″W / 52.303425°N 1.347302°W / 52.303425; -1.347302

Leamington Hastings is a small village and larger civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The civil parish covers Leamington Hastings itself, plus the nearby hamlets of Broadwell, Hill and Kites Hardwick. Its population in the 2011 census was 440, increasing slightly to 466 at the 2021 census.[1]

Village

The village is about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of

Borough of Rugby
.

The name of the village is due to it being just south of the

lords of the manor.[2]

The village contains the historic Church of All Saints and some preserved 17th-century almshouses, which date from 1608, but were extensively restored during 1980-81.[2][3]

The Christopher Saxton map of Warwickshire (1637 edition) includes a curious transposition: Leamington Hastings appears as Lemington priors, and what is now called Leamington Spa, or Royal Leamington Spa, appears as Lemington hastings.

The first mention of a post office in Leamington Hastings was in September 1845, when a type of postmark known as an undated circular handstamp was issued.[4] The village post office closed in May 1979.

Leamington Hastings Infant School is located in the village.[5]

Notable residents

The Victorian philosopher Richard Congreve was born at Leamington Hastings.

A branch of the Sitwell family lived at Leamington Hastings, where they had inherited their holdings from a Wheler heiress.[6] Edward Sacheverell Wilmot was lord of the manor from 1801 to 1819.[7] From them the later Wilmot-Sitwell family of Horsley, Derbyshire descended.[8]

Rev. Degge Wilmot Sitwell, who lived at The Manor House at Leamington Hastings, served as vicar of the church.

Keeper of the Jewel House
in London.

References

  1. ^ "LEAMINGTON HASTINGS Parish in West Midlands". City Population. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-85058-642-X
    .
  3. ^ "LEAMINGTON HASTINGS ALMSHOUSE". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  4. ISBN 0-9513311-3-2
    .
  5. ^ "Leamington Hastings C of E Academy - Home". www.leamingtonhastingsinfantschool.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
  6. ^ co, White Francis and (1850). History, gazetteer, and directory, of Warwickshire. p. 691 – via Internet Archive. leamington hastings wilmot-sitwell.
  7. ^ "Parishes: Leamington Hastings - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  8. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8063-1434-1
    .


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