Leamington Hastings
Leamington Hastings is a small
village and larger
civil parish in
Warwickshire,
England.
The village is located around seven miles (11 km) south-west of
Rugby just to the west of the
A426 road between Rugby and
Southam. Just to the north of the village is the
Draycote Water reservoir. Administratively Leamington Hastings forms part of the
borough of Rugby.
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.
The village contains the historic
"All Saint's Church" and some preserved 17th century
almshouses
The pathologist
Bernard Spilsbury was born in Leamington Hastings in 1877.
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. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 450.
