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Hampton Lucy


Hampton Lucy is a village and civil parish on the River Avon, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 566.

Rev.Canon Osbert Mordaunt,for twenty years proprietor of the village public-house at Hampton Lucy. Rector from 1874 to 1922. Died in October 1923

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. 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. 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, Charlecotte, Wasperton or Alveston.


New York Times,July 14,1898,August 25,1898.

Coordinates: 52°12′42″N 1°37′42″W / 52.21153°N 1.62822°W / 52.21153; -1.62822



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