WELLESBOURN-HASTINGS, a parish in the Warwick division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. W.) from Kington, containing, with Walton-Deivile, 600 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the rectory of Walton- Deivile annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £7. 11. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is partly in the Norman, and partly in the early English, style of architecture, with a tower of later character: it contains a monument to the memory of Sir Thomas le Strange, lord-lieutenant of Ireland in the reign of Henry VI. About fifty boys and sixty girls receive gratuitous instruction in schools founded, in 1723, by the Rev. Richard Boyse, who endowed them with land and houses now producing nearly £60 per annum, which sum has been subsequently augmented by subscriptions to about £82, for the maintenance of a master and a mistress.