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Leamington is a town in Millard County, Utah, and the 2020 census counted 256 residents.

Leamington was established in 1871 and incorporated in 1936, and it was named for Leamington Spa in England.

The town was settled in 1871 by Thomas Morgan, who was the first branch president when the Leamington Branch of the LDS Church was organized in 1876.

In 1871, settlers from nearby Oak City built a dam in what is now Leamington, and a log meetinghouse was built in 1880.

A spur of the railroad was brought down from Salt Lake City through Leamington past Lynndyl Junction by Bengt Textorius.

Early Leamington residents made adobe bricks in cone kilns, cut ice blocks from the Sevier River in winter and stored them in straw-covered caves as refrigerators, and heated bricks on potbelly stoves to warm their beds.

Sugar cane grew better than wheat in Leamington, so residents produced molasses, and they sold butter, eggs, meat, flour goods, and seasonal fruit and vegetables in the mining town of Eureka to the north.

On Highway 132 near the middle of Leamington sits a 1950s-style Phillips 66 gas station with period cars and a growing collection of retired farm implements, plus a classic 1950s-era American Linen Supply Company delivery van.

Leamington covers about 1.53 square miles of land at an elevation of 4,731 feet, and its ZIP code is 84638.

The 2000 census counted 64 households in Leamington, with an average household size of 3.39 and a median age of 26 years.