Whitnash
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Whitnash is a town and civil parish located southeast of, and contiguous with Leamington Spa and Warwick in Warwickshire, England. In 2001, it had a population of 7,760 which increased to 9,129 in the 2011 census, increasing again to 10,489 in the 2021 census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Whitnash
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Margaret ^ Warwick Gates Community Church, Whitnash - geograph.org.uk - 2187012.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Margaret's Church
- UK place.population
- 10,489
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Warwick
- UK place.shire_county
- Warwickshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Warwick and Leamington
- UK place.post_town
- LEAMINGTON SPA
- UK place.postcode_district
- CV31
- UK place.postcode_area
- CV
- UK place.dial_code
- 01926
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 8806
- Official website
- www.whitnashtowncouncil.gov.uk/index.aspx
- Image
- Old Whitnash Road, Whitnash - geograph.org.uk - 1453791.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01926
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- Commons category
- Whitnash
- postal code
- CV31
- P8168
- Camporgiano
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Whitnash is a town and civil parish located southeast of, and contiguous with Leamington Spa and Warwick in Warwickshire, England. In 2001, it had a population of 7,760 which increased to 9,129 in the 2011 census, increasing again to 10,489 in the 2021 census.
==History== Whitnash was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Witenas, by 1326 it had become Whitenasshe meaning 'white ash'. As Whitnash is generally thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon ‘at the white ash’ other derivations have included ‘place by the wood’, ‘sacred ash’ or the 'meeting place of the wise'. Whitnash has likely been settled since Celtic times. According to tradition, just east of the town there was a Celtic fortification in a field known as “Castle Hill Field”. The parish church of St Margaret's is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and stands on a mound which may have been a pre-Christian pagan site, it was largely rebuilt between 1855 and 1880 to designs by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
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