Leamington branch

Complete Estate Agents Leamington Spa opened its doors back in 2012 on Regent Grove. The team we have put together are experts in Leamington Spa, knowing the local area so well we are specialists and well-suited to sell your property in Leamington, Warwick and the surrounding Villages- we are all very pro-Leamington and understand the diverse town with its 51,323 population according to the 2021 Census.

Leamington Spa is famous for its Jephson's Gardens on the banks of the River Leam and throughout the town there is a wealth of elegant properties, the Victorian and Georgian heritage for which Leamington is renowned. Leamington has a diverse range of boutiques, high-street shopping, cafes, restaurants, bars and activities for all ages. Wide boulevards, stunning architecture and award-winning parks provide a sophisticated backdrop to this Regency town. Leamington town centre combines a treasure-trove of independent, specialist boutiques alongside high street brands and a huge variety of eating experiences. Leamington has been named as one of the happiest places to live in the UK several times. Rightmove's 2020 survey placed the town in third place.

The town of Leamington Spa, originally known as Leamington Priors was a tiny village until about 1800. The value of the mineral springs was known in the Middle Ages, but it was not until 1784 that the small village began rediscovering its saline springs and started building baths around some of them. Leamington Spa achieved 'Royal' status in 1838 by Queen Victoria. There are only 3 towns in the United Kingdom with a ‘Royal’ prefix, these are Royal Leamington Spa, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Royal Wootten Bassett. Frank Whittle, the man who invented the jet engine, learned most of his engineering skills at his father’s workshop at Clinton Street in Leamington Spa.

In July 1814, ‘The Royal Pump Room and Baths’ was built, the spa treatments that they provided were said to cure or relieve many disorders, such as stiff joints and also ‘the effects of gout and rheumatism and various paralytic conditions’. As a result of the spa resort, Leamington began to attract many wealthy and famous people, who all wanted to experience the magical qualities of the water. Following the death of Queen Victoria, a statue of the monarch who had once favoured the town was erected outside Leamington’s town hall in 1902. But almost 40 years later, it was offset by several inches on its plinth when a German bomb exploded nearby on November 14th 1940. It was never returned to its original position, and a plaque on the statue’s pedestal now commemorates the event.

Leamington may be the only town in Britain with an elephant wash. The first elephant trainer in England was Sam Lockhart, a member of the famous Lockhart circus family. For much of his life, he was based in Leamington, and when he acquired three elephants from Ceylon he kept them with him in the town as well as touring them around the country. According to local legend, the circus animals were regularly walked down from their quarters to bathe in the River Leam, but after their trumpeting disturbed worshippers at the nearby parish church, a dedicated elephant wash was built further away for them to use. Contemporary evidence of this is hard to come by, suggesting it may be just a myth – but the ramp that forms the alleged elephant wash is still visible from the Mill Road Footbridge opposite the Jephson Gardens park. This probably explains the monument in Regent Court food quarter 'The Three Graces' which has 3 elephant statues and Jepshons Gardens has elephants around benches.

The area has some excellent schools, most notably Arnold Lodge and Kingsley School for Girls in Leamington Spa, Warwick Boys School, and Kings High School for Girls. Leamington Spa (trains to London Marylebone from 70 mins and Birmingham from 31 mins), Warwick 2.5 miles, Warwick Parkway Station 2.5 miles (trains to London Marylebone from 69 mins), M40 (J13 & J15) 4 miles, Stratford upon Avon 11 miles, Coventry 8.4 miles (trains to London Euston from 61 mins), Birmingham International Airport 17 miles, Birmingham City Centre 18 miles (distances and times approximate).

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Williams & Yemm trading as Complete Estate Agents Leamington   Company Number 10693635