Bedworth in 1843
Bedworth is in the Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, about 3 miles south of Nuneaton : the area of the parish is 2,240 acres : the population, in 1831, was 3,980, a very small part of which was agricultural. There are coal-pits and stone-quarries near the village, which, in 1831, gave employment to 180 men : more than 300 men were at that time engaged in manufactures, but of what kind is not stated in the population returns. The village is on the road between Nuneaton and Coventry, which are the chief seats of the ribbon-manufacture. |