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Leamington Hastings is a small village and larger
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in Warwickshire, England. The civil parish covers Leamington Hastings itself, plus the nearby
hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...
of Broadwell,
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and
Kites Hardwick Kites Hardwick is a hamlet in east Warwickshire, England, in the Leam Valley ward of Rugby Borough and in the civil parish of Leamington Hastings The village straddles the A426 Rugby to Southam road two miles (3 km) south of Dunchurch. ...
. Its population in the 2011 census was 440, increasing slightly to 466 at the 2021 census.


Village

The village is about 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Rugby and west of the
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between Rugby and Southam. To the north of the village is the Draycote Water reservoir. Administratively, Leamington Hastings forms part of the
Borough of Rugby The Borough of Rugby is a local government district with borough status in eastern Warwickshire, England. The borough comprises the town of Rugby where the council has its headquarters, and the rural areas surrounding the town. The borough has a ...
. The name of the village is due to it being just south of the River Leam, and the 'Hastings' part is due to the 'Hastang' family, the medieval
lords of the manor Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seigno ...
.Allen, Geoff. (2000). ''Warwickshire Towns and Villages''. Pages 77-78. Sigma Leisure. . The village contains the historic Church of All Saints and some preserved 17th-century
almshouse An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from cer ...
s, which date from 1608, but were extensively restored during 1980-81. 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 Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following ...
, or Royal Leamington Spa, appears as ''Lemington hastings''. The first mention of a
post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...
in Leamington Hastings was in September 1845, when a type of
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known as an undated circular handstamp was issued. The village post office closed in May 1979. Leamington Hastings Infant School is located in the village.


Notable residents

The Victorian philosopher
Richard Congreve Richard Congreve (4 September 1818 – 5 July 1899) was the first English philosopher to openly espouse the Religion of Humanity, the godless form of religious humanism that was introduced by Auguste Comte, as a distinct form of positivism. Cong ...
was born at Leamington Hastings. A branch of the
Sitwell Sitwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A member of the Sitwell literary family: :* Edith Sitwell :* Osbert Sitwell :* Sacheverell Sitwell * The Sitwell Baronets, holders of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British ...
family lived at Leamington Hastings, where they had inherited their holdings from a Wheler heiress. Edward Sacheverell Wilmot was lord of the manor from 1801 to 1819. From them the later Wilmot-Sitwell family of Horsley, Derbyshire descended. Rev. Degge Wilmot Sitwell, who lived at The Manor House at Leamington Hastings, served as vicar of the church. His grandson was Major General Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell, born in 1896, who served as General Officer commanding the British troops on
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in 1942, when he was captured by
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ese forces and spent the next three years in Japanese
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camps. He was made a Companion of the
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in 1946. From 1953 until 1968 he was Keeper of the Jewel House in London.


References


External links


Village website

Leamington Hastings archives
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