Hampton Lucy | |
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 A signpost in the centre of Hampton Lucy | |
| Coordinates: 52°12′43″N 1°37′34″W / 52.21189°N 1.62611°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| County | Warwickshire |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 566 |
| Postcode | CV35 |
| Website | hamptonlucy |
Hampton Lucy is a village and civil parish on the River Avon, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 566.[1]
The grammar school at Hampton Lucy was founded and endowed by the Rev. Richard Hill, curate of Hampton Lucy, in the 11th year of the reign of Charles I of England.[2] In 1867, the school had two departments; the upper department had some boarding school students who were each charged 8 pounds, 8 shillings per year.[3] 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 parishes 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 botanist who was born and educated at Hampton Lucy,[4] Sir Ian Wilmut OBE, the embryologist, 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 public house and rector from 1874 to 1922,[5] who died in October 1923.[6] [7]
