Bedworth, Warwickshire

Description
Bedworth, a town and a parish in Warwickshire. Tho town stands adjacent to the Coventry Canal, on the high road between Coventry and Nuneaton, 5 miles NE of Coventry, and 3 S of Nuneaton, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Nuneaton. There are extensive coal and ironstone mines belonging to the Chamberlain Charity and leased to the Bedworth Coal and Iron Company. A manufacture of ribbons, tapes, and hats is carried on. The town has a branch establishment of the Leicestershire Banking Company; a fair is held on Whit-Wednesday. The parish comprises 2165 acres; population, 5485. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £475 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Aylesford, who is lord of the manor. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1890. It is a handsome edifice in the Decorated style, with seats for 900 all free. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Calvinist chapels; and almshouses for forty aged men and women. The last-named occupy three sides of a cloistered quadrangle, in Later Gothic, built in 1840, at a cost of £8500, and form part of the Chamberlain Charity, which was founded in 1715 by the Rev. N. Chamberlain, rector of the parish.