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Nuneaton Warwick located in the north east of the county. It is a modern town small but equipped for modern-day life 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.
Nuneaton began as a Saxon farmstead in the UK 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, but 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.
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