LEAMINGTON-HASTINGS, a parish in the Southam
division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of
WARWICK, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Southam, containing
444 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £20. The Rev.
-H. W. Sitwell was patron in 1822. The church is
dedicated to All Saints. About thirty poor children
are educated by a schoolmaster, who receives £25 per
annum, chargeable on the parish land. In the reign of
James I. an hospital for the maintenance of eight poor
persons of this parish was founded, and endowed by
Humphrey Davis. An almshouse also was founded and
endowed, in 1687, for two poor persons, by means of a
bequest from Dorothy, widow of Sir Charles Wheeler,
Bart. The Warwick and Napton canal passes through
this parish, on the southern side.