Leamington Hastings
| Leamington Hastings | |
| Warwickshire | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP4467 |
| Location: | 52°18’12"N, 1°20’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 440 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Rugby |
| Postcode: | CV23 |
| Dialling code: | 01926 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rugby |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Kenilworth and Southam |
Leamington Hastings is a small village and parish in the Knightlow hundred of Warwickshire.
Village
The village is about seven miles south-west of Rugby and west of the A426 road between Rugby and Southam. To the north of the village is the Draycote Water reservoir.
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 mediæval lords of the manor.
The village contains the historic Church of All Saints and some preserved 17th-century almshouses.
Christopher Saxton's 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.[2] The village post office closed in May 1979.
Leamington Hastings Infant School is located in the village.[3]
Notable residents
The renowned pathologist Bernard Spilsbury lived in Leamington Hastings.
A branch of the Sitwell family lived at Leamington Hastings, where they had inherited their holdings from a Wheler heiress.[4] Edward Sacheverell Wilmot was lord of the manor from 1801–19.[5] From them the later Wilmot-Sitwell family of Horsley, Derbyshire descended.[6]
Rev. Degge Wilmot Sitwell, who lived at The Manor House at Leamington Hastings, served as vicar of the church.[7] His grandson was Major General Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell, born in 1896, who served as General Officer commanding the British troops on Java in 1942, when he was captured by Japanese forces and spent the next three years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1946. From 1953 until 1968 he was Keeper of the Jewel House in London.
Parish
As well as the village of Leamington Hastings, the civil parish of the same name also covers the nearby hamlets of Broadwell, Hill and Kites Hardwick.[8] In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 450.[9]
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125509&c=Leamington+Hastings&d=16&e=62&g=6471945&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451125278702&enc=1. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
- ↑ The Undated Circular Marks of the Midland Counties, p. 150. Midland (GB) Postal History Society. (1997). ISBN 0-9513311-3-2.
- ↑ "Leamington Hastings C of E Academy - Home". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518070430/http://www.leamingtonhastingsinfantschool.co.uk/home.
- ↑ co, White Francis and (30 October 2017). "History, gazetteer, and directory, of Warwickshire". https://books.google.com/books?id=Wb4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA691&lpg=PA691&dq=%22leamington+hastings%22+wilmot-sitwell&source=web&ots=QsQIGe_o_B&sig=lXkTZtPPODDM1yH87wCZBsjs6rM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result.
- ↑ "Parishes: Leamington Hastings - British History Online". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57116.
- ↑ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=F6413.
- ↑ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis of Ruvigny et (1994). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-8063-1434-1.
- ↑ "www.bmsgh.org". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20081204062254/http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/leamingtonhastings.html.
- ↑ "Local statistics - Office for National Statistics". http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790539.
Sources
- Allen, Geoff. (2000). Warwickshire Towns and Villages. Sigma Leisure. ISBN 1-85058-642-X.
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