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Bedworth
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Bedworth (ˈbɛdwərθ or locally ˈbɛdərθ) is a market town and unparished area in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. It is situated between Coventry, 6 miles (9.5 km) to the south, and Nuneaton, to the north.
In the 2011 census the town had a population of 30,648.
Bedworth lies northwest of London, east of Birmingham and north northeast of the county town of Warwick.
Bedworth has six main suburban districts, namely Collycroft, Mount Pleasant, Bedworth Heath, Coalpit Field, Goodyers End and Exhall. Exhall is a generic name for the area surrounding junction 3 of the M6 motorway, comprising parts of both Bedworth and Coventry. Around to the east of Bedworth is the large village of Bulkington, and around to the south-west, separated by a short gap is the village of Ash Green.
Bedworth is almost contiguous with Coventry, and is defined as being part of the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area.
The River Sowe rises in Bedworth flowing through Exhall, northern and eastern Coventry, Baginton and Stoneleigh, before joining the River Avon south of Stoneleigh.
The town is locally pronounced as 'Beduth' though as Bedworth almost everywhere else.
Originally a small market town with Saxon origins, Bedworth was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bedeword. The first record of a priest at Bedworth was from 1297. The town suffered great decline as a result of the Black Death in the 14th century. In 1590, the town was described as being home to just 14 families. By 1730, Bedworth had recovered somewhat as a result of local coal mining, and was described as containing 260 houses.
Following the passage of the Five Mile Act 1665, which forbade Nonconformist church goers from assembling for worship and preaching within five miles of a corporate town such as Coventry. Bedworth, being exactly five miles from Coventry became a local centre for Nonconformists who assembled at the town. In 1686 the Reverend Julius Saunders established the Old Meeting congregation just north of the five-mile post.
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