Everything about Amington totally explained
Amington is a
ward, a
parish and a suburb of
Tamworth in
Staffordshire,
England, and was formerly a distinct village. Amington is to the far east of the town centre. Nearby places are
Bolehall (further to the west within
Tamworth),
Glascote Heath (to the south-west),
Stonydelph (to the south) and
Alvecote (a village outside the borough boundary to the north-east).
Amington is the site of
Amington Hall. On the eve of the
English Civil War there was some opposition to the paying of poor rate levies from the local gentry, in particular Cecil Warburton, the occupant of the Hall. The justices at the quarter sessions for Easter,
1642 heard that Cecil Warburton of Hall End, Amington, “did lock up the overseer of the poor (George Payne)…and drew his sword upon him there in a very outrageous manner”.
It is also near the
Coventry Canal, the
River Anker, and also the
Trent Valley Line of the West Coast Main Line, all of which pass east/west just to the north of Amington.
Amington is within the traditional borders of
Warwickshire (the historic county boundary runs through
Tamworth high street). The village was once part of Amington and
Stonydelph civil parish along with
Stonydelph, which became part of
Tamworth Rural District in
1932 (hence becoming part of the administrative county of Staffordshire), and then
Tamworth borough in
1965.
This means that the Parish Church, St. Editha's, is part of the
Diocese of Birmingham (although
Birmingham is also no longer part of
Warwickshire) whereas the Parish Church of
Tamworth, also dedicated to
St. Editha, is part of the
Diocese of Lichfield
In the village there are two convenience stores, Tesco Express and The Co-op. There is also a post office and a fish and chip shop.
Amington has three pubs: The Gate Inn, The Old Liberal and The Amington.
In the 1990s two developers built a 1000-home estate in the village which is now known as Amington Fields. In 2006, Antler Homes built a 17-house estate named Ashby Grange.
Woodhouse High School, one of the five high schools in
Tamworth, is situated in Amington.
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