Kingswood is an area in the

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

es of Lapworth and Rowington in Warwick District,

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

, England. It forms the main residential area of the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of Lapworth, and includes about 18 properties in the parish of Rowington. The population of Lapworth parish was 1,828 in the 2011 Census. The population of Kingswood has been estimated as 1,152 in 2020. Kingswood is situated on the Grand Union Canal and the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. The two

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...

s meet at Kingswood Junction. Kingswood also has a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

called Lapworth railway station. It was originally called Kingswood, but the station name was changed to Lapworth to avoid confusion with station in

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

. Kingswood lies 5 miles north-west of Henley-in-Arden. In 1879-1872 Kingswood was described in the '' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' as a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

in the

es of Lapworth and Rowington and had a unitarian

chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...

and property valued at £1,027.

References

Villages in Warwickshire Warwick District {{Warwickshire-geo-stub