The civil parish covers Leamington Hastings itself, plus the nearby hamlets of Broadwell, Hill and Kites Hardwick.

The first mention of a post office in Leamington Hastings was in September 1845, when a type of postmark known as an undated circular handstamp was issued.

A branch of the Sitwell family lived at Leamington Hastings, where they had inherited their holdings from a Wheler heiress.

Degge Wilmot Sitwell, who lived at The Manor House at Leamington Hastings, served as vicar of the church.

[9] His grandson was Major General Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell, born in 1896, who served as General Officer commanding the British troops on Java in 1942, when he was captured by Japanese forces and spent the next three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.