Eathorpe is a small village and

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five miles east of Leamington Spa, in

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, England. The

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is part of the electoral ward of

Cubbington Cubbington is a village and civil parish with a population of 3,929, adjoining the north-eastern outskirts of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, approximately 3 miles from the town centre. Welsh Road, running through the village crossroads, ...

. It is close to the B4455, which follows the line of the

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Fosse Way, and the

River Leam The River Leam (), anciently Leame, etc, is a river in England which rises at Hellidon Hill in Northamptonshire then flows through Warwickshire, including the town of Leamington Spa, named after it. It then flows into the River Avon near Warwic ...

. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 113, increasing to 190 at the 2011 census. The village has a

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, the original being built in the early 1970s. The only

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is The Plough, an 18th-century former coaching inn situated beside the Fosse Way. The first mention of a

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in Eathorpe was in 1875, but the village post office closed in March 1999. Eathorpe Hall is the former home of Samuel Shepheard, who built the original Shepheard's Hotel in

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.''Warwickshire and Worcestershire Life'', March 1986. An inscription on the bridge, over the

, which links Eathorpe with the nearby village of Wappenbury reads: "This bridge was erected by Samuel Shepheard of Eathorpe Hall, 1862". Close to the bridge is a pipeline which feeds water from the Leam to nearby

Draycote Water Draycote Water is a reservoir and country park near the village of Dunchurch, south of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, owned and operated by Severn Trent Water. It draws its water from the River Leam, and supplies drinking water to Rugby and ...

. This pipeline was used to fill the

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when it opened in 1966.

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