Rent Houses Leamington Spa Warwickshire

Approximate Population: 45,114

Leamington Spa, properly Royal Leamington Spa, commonly Leamington and “Leam” to locals, is a spa town in central Warwickshire, England.

According to the 2001 census the town had a population of 45,114 making it the third largest town in the county after Nuneaton and Rugby. It is named after the River Leam which flows through the town.

Leamington is a relatively modern town. Until the beginning of the 1800s, Leamington was a village named Leamington Priors. Leamington was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lamintone. For 400 years, the settlement was under the control of Kenilworth Priory, whence the older suffix.

Leamington would have probably remained as a small village near Warwick, had it not been for the rediscovery of the healing properties of spa waters (they had been known about in Roman times). The first spring to be used for commercial purposes was discovered in Leamington in 1784 by William Abbotts and Benjamin Satchwell, and steps were soon underway to develop the town.

Leamington Spa is administered by several local authorities, each with different responsibilities, the two main authorities are Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council. Since 2002 Leamington has also been a civil parish and therefore has its own Town Council.

Between 1875 and 1974 Leamington was a municipal borough. As part of the 1974 local government reform it was merged with Warwick, Kenilworth and surrounding rural areas into the Warwick district, the headquarters of which are based in Leamington.

Leamington is part of the Parliamentary constituency of Warwick and Leamington. Since the 1997 general election the sitting MP has been James Plaskitt of the Labour Party, but before then was considered a safe Conservative constituency, with former Prime Minister Anthony Eden once a Leamington MP. At the 2005 general election, James Plaskitt had a majority of just 266 votes.

Lillington, Milverton and Sydenham are the main suburban districts within Leamington Spa. Whitnash is a town which merges with Leamington directly to the south of the town and is generally considered as a suburb. Similarly, Cubbington (comprising of the old village Cubbington and New Cubbington) is a sizeable village which merges with the Leamington urban area to the northeast and is often regarded as a suburb of the town. The village of Radford Semele only 4km to the east is sometimes referred to as one of the town’s suburbs, however it does not quite merge with Leamington’s urban area at any point and is distinctly separate.

Rent Houses Leamington Spa Warwickshire

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