Nuneaton

Nuneaton, a market-town of Warwickshire, on the river Anker and the Coventry Canal, 14 miles NNW. of Rugby, 9 N. by E. of Coventry, and 22 E. of Birmingham. It has a good Gothic parish church, some remains of a 12th-century nunnery, with a modern church built thereon, and a grammar-school (1553). The ribbon manufacture has given place to worsted, cotton, and woollen spinning. 'George Eliot,' born at Arbury Farm, went to school at Nuneaton, and here witnessed the riot described in Felix Holt. Pop. of parish (1851) 8133; (1891) 11,580.