Kites Hardwick

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Kites Hardwick (also known as Kytes Hardwick) is a hamlet between Rugby and Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, close to Draycote Water and bisected by the River Leam. It has an agricultural heritage with a number of farms, with some farmhouses dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Recently some of the farm land has been dedicated to a golf driving range.

In medieval times Kites Hardwick was a village, but it was depopulated by the Black Death in the 15th Century and has never recovered to village status since then. During World War Two a small munitions factory occupied some land, and there was a 'dummy' airfield. There was an incendiary bomb attack on a thatched cottage, believed in fact to be simply the jetisoning of bombs causing incidental damage.

Kites Hardwick is part of the ecclesiastical and civil parishes of Leamington Hastings