Amington

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Map sources for Amington at grid reference SK238021

Amington is 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 outrageus 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.

Woodhouse High School, one of the five high schools in Tamworth, is situated in Amington.