WHITTINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of GRENDON, Tamworth division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 2 miles (N.W.) from Atherstone. The population is returned with the parish. Whittington is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.