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Nuneaton, in the north east of the county of Warwickshire is a modern town and its most well known ex-resident was Mary Ann Evans, or George Elliot. A lot of the public buildings and indeed the area around are named after her.

The town began as a Saxon farmstead, by the time of the Doomsday Book 1086 it had grown into a rather large rural community. In the middle of the 12th century the Lord of the Manor gave the village to a French Abbey. They built a priory for nuns there. The nuns gave the town its modern name.

In 1539 Henry VIII closed the nunnery, on the other hand the town continued to be a thriving market town and a grammar school was founded in 1552.Industries in that era included leather tanning and brick making. From the mid-16th century there was also an iron working industry. As early as the 14th century it boomed in the 17th and 18th centuries. From the late 17th century there was a silk ribbon weaving industry. The weavers worked on looms in their own homes.