Hampton Lucy is a village and

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on the River Avon, northeast of

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...

England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 566.

History

The

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at Hampton Lucy was founded and endowed by the Rev. Richard Hill, curate of Hampton Lucy, in the 11th year of the reign of

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. In 1867, the school had two departments; the upper department had some

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students who were each charged 8 pounds, 8 shillings per year. The school closed and was replaced by the Hampton Lucy Grammar School Foundation, which is a charity providing educational grants to children and young persons residing in the

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of Hampton Lucy, Charlecote, Wasperton or Alveston. St Peter ad Vincula Church, Hampton Lucy is a Grade I listed building. Charlecote Mill, a Grade II* listed water mill, is nearby. Notable people associated with the village are Charles Maries (1851–1902), the Victorian

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who was born and educated at Hampton Lucy, Sir Ian Wilmut OBE, the

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, who was born in Hampton Lucy on 7 July 1944, and Rev. Canon Osbert Mordaunt, a first-class cricketer who for twenty years was proprietor of the village

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and rector from 1874 to 1922, who died in October 1923.

References

External links

* * Villages in Warwickshire {{Warwickshire-geo-stub