Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a

ceremonial county Ceremonial counties, formally known as ''counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies'', are areas of England to which lord-lieutenant, lord-lieutenants are appointed. A lord-lieutenant is the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarch's repres ...

in the West Midlands of England. It is bordered by

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

and

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

to the north,

Northamptonshire Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshi ...

to the east,

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Glouceste ...

and

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...

to the south, and

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands (county), West ...

and the

West Midlands county West Midlands is a Metropolitan county, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the larger West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. A landlocked county, it is bordered by Staffordshire to the north ...

to the west. The largest settlement is

Nuneaton Nuneaton ( ) is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire to the north-east.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : Nuneaton's population at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 censu ...

and the

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Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

. The county is largely rural; it has an area of and a population of 571,010. After Nuneaton (88,813), the largest settlements are Rugby (78,125),

Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply LeamingtonEven more colloquially, also referred to as Lem or Leam (). (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Pri ...

(50,923), Warwick (36,665), Bedworth (31,090) and

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...

(30,495). For

local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

purposes, Warwickshire is a

non-metropolitan county A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a subdivision of England used for local government. The non-metropolitan counties were originally created in 1974 as part of a reform of local government in England and Wales, and ...

with five districts. The county historically included the city of

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

and the area to its west, including

Sutton Coldfield Sutton Coldfield or the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield ( ), is a town and civil parish in the city of Birmingham, West Midlands County, West Midlands, England. The town lies around 8 miles northeast of Birmingham city centre, 9 miles south of L ...

Solihull Solihull ( ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe in the Arden, Warwickshire, Forest of Arden ar ...

and a significant part of

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, including the

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. Warwickshire is a relatively flat, lowland county, but its far south contains a very small part of the

Cotswolds The Cotswolds ( ) is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham. The area is defined by the bedroc ...

AONB. The River Avon, a major tributary of the Severn, flows through the south of the county. The region was part of

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and later the Roman road called

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became the boundary between the

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kingdom of

Mercia Mercia (, was one of the principal kingdoms founded at the end of Sub-Roman Britain; the area was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlan ...

and the

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. The county was relatively settled during the rest of the Middle Ages and Early Modern period; Coventry developed as a major centre of the textiles trade. The playwright

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

was born in

in 1564, living much of his life there, and the

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of 1605 was planned near Snitterfield. During the Industrial Revolution, the Warwickshire coalfield was exploited and Coventry and the west of the county became manufacturing centres; Leamington Spa developed as a tourist resort at the same time. The Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans, better known as

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

, was born just outside Nuneaton in 1819.

Geography

Warwickshire is bordered by

to the northeast,

to the northwest,

and the West Midlands to the west,

to the east and southeast,

to the southwest and

to the south. The northern tip of the county is only from the

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

border. An average-sized English county covering an area of , it runs some north to south. The majority of Warwickshire's population live in the north and centre of the county. The market towns of northern and eastern Warwickshire were industrialised in the 19th century, and include

Atherstone Atherstone is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. Located in the far north of the county, Atherstone is on the A5 national route, and is adjacent to the border with Leicestershire which ...

, Bedworth, Coleshill,

, and Rugby. Major industries included

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and

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production, but heavy industry is in decline, being replaced by distribution centres, light to medium industry and services. Of the northern and eastern towns, Nuneaton and Rugby (as the birthplace of

rugby football Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where the rules were first codified in 1845. Forms of football in which the ball ...

) are best known outside of Warwickshire. The prosperous towns of central and western Warwickshire, including

Kenilworth Kenilworth ( ) is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Warwick (district), Warwick District of Warwickshire, England, southwest of Coventry and north of both Warwick and Leamington Spa. Situated at the centre of t ...

Alcester Alcester ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England. It is west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 7 miles south of Redditch. The town dates back to the times of Roman ...

, Southam and

Wellesbourne Wellesbourne is a large village in the civil parish of Wellesbourne and Walton, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 7,283, a significant increase from 5,84 ...

, harbour tourism, gaming and services as major employment sectors. The north of the county, bordering Staffordshire and Leicestershire, is mildly undulating countryside (rising to 178m / 581 ft near

Hartshill Hartshill is a large village and civil parish in North Warwickshire, England, contiguous with the much larger town of Nuneaton, the town centre of which is 2.5 miles (4 km) to the south-east. The parish borders the district of Nuneaton a ...

) and the northernmost village, No Man's Heath, is only south of the Peak District National Park's southernmost point. The south of the county is largely rural and sparsely populated, and includes a very small area of the

, at the border with northeast Gloucestershire. The plain between the outlying Cotswolds and the Edgehill escarpment is known as the Vale of Red Horse.''Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club'', v.14, (1903), p.217 The only

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in the south of Warwickshire is Shipston-on-Stour. The highest point in the county, at , is Ebrington Hill, again on the border with Gloucestershire, at the county's southwest extremity. There are no cities in Warwickshire since both

and

were incorporated into the West Midlands county in 1974 and are now metropolitan authorities in themselves. According to the

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, the largest towns (+20,000 pop.) in Warwickshire were: Nuneaton (pop. 81,900), Rugby (70,600), Leamington Spa (49,500), Bedworth (32,500), Warwick (30,100), Stratford (25,500) and Kenilworth (22,400)

Arden and Felden

Much of western Warwickshire, including the area now forming part of Coventry, Solihull and Birmingham, was covered by the ancient Forest of Arden (most of which was cut down to provide fuel for industrialisation). Thus the names of a number of places in the central-western part of Warwickshire end with the phrase "-in-Arden", such as Henley-in-Arden, Hampton-in-Arden and Tanworth-in-Arden. The remaining area, not part of the forest, was called the Felden – from '' fielden -'' and is now an undulating and agricultural landscape, through which the rivers Avon and Leam flow.

Historic county boundaries

Areas historically part of Warwickshire include

, and some of

including the

Aston Aston is an area of inner Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Located immediately to the north-west of Birmingham city centre, Central Birmingham, Aston constitutes a wards of the United Kingdom, war ...

, Castle Bromwich, Digbeth,

Edgbaston Edgbaston () is a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies immediately south-west of Birmingham city centre, and was historically in Warwickshire. The Ward (electoral subdivision), wards of Edgbaston and Nort ...

Erdington Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Warwickshire, it is located northeast of central Birmingham, bordering Sutt ...

, Hodge Hill, Ladywood, Nechells, Saltley, Shard End, Sheldon, Small Heath and Sparkbrook. These areas also became part of the

metropolitan county Metropolitan counties are a Subdivisions of England, subdivision of England which were originally used for Local government in England, local government. There are six metropolitan counties: Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyn ...

of West Midlands (and Sutton Coldfield became part of Birmingham) following local government re-organisation in 1974. Flag of Warwickshire

In 1986 the West Midlands County Council was abolished and Birmingham, Coventry, and Solihull became effective

unitary authorities A unitary authority is a type of local government, local authority in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Unitary authorities are responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are ...

. However, the West Midlands county name has not been altogether abolished, and still exists for ceremonial purposes. Since 2016, it has been used as part of the

West Midlands Combined Authority The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is the combined authority for the West Midlands metropolitan county in the United Kingdom. It was established on 17 June 2016 by statutory instrument under the Local Democracy, Economic Development ...

, with powers over transport, economic development and regeneration. Some organisations, such as

Warwickshire County Cricket Club Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class cricket, first-class county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic counties of England, historic county of ...

, which is based in

, in Birmingham, observe the historic county boundaries. The flag of the historic county was registered in October 2016. It is a design of a bear and ragged staff on a red field, which is long associated with the county.

is effectively in the centre of the Warwickshire area, and still has strong ties with the county. Coventry and Warwickshire are sometimes treated as a single area and share a single

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and BBC Local Radio Station ( BBC CWR).

was administered separately from the rest of Warwickshire between 1451 and 1842. It formed the County of the City of Coventry, a

county corporate A county corporate or corporate county was a type of subnational division used for the administration of justice in certain towns and cities in England, Wales, and Ireland. They arose when the monarch gave a borough corporation the right to appoi ...

from 1451. In 1842 the county corporate of Coventry was abolished and remerged with the rest of Warwickshire. The town of Tamworth was historically divided between Warwickshire and

, but since 1888 has been fully in Staffordshire.

Green belt

Warwickshire contains a large expanse of

green belt A green belt or greenbelt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wilderness, wild, or agricultural landscape, land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts ...

area, surrounding the West Midlands and

conurbations, and was first drawn up from the 1950s. All the county's districts contain some portion of the belt.

Places of interest

Anne Hathaway's Cottage Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed former farmhouse where Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare), Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child. It is situated in Shottery about west of Stratford-upon-Avon town centre. ...

* Arbury Hall * Battle of Edgehill *

The Belfry The Belfry is a golf resort and hotel in Wishaw, Warwickshire, close to Sutton Coldfield, England, located approximately 8 miles from the centre of Birmingham. It was acquired by KSL Capital Partners in August 2012. The resort has three golf ...

* Brinklow Castle *

British Motor Museum The British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England holds the world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust. History The cr ...

* Burton Dassett Hills * Caldecotte Park * Charlecote Park * Charlecote Water Mill * Chesterton Windmill *

Compton Verney House Compton Verney House () is an 18th-century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England. It is located on the west side of a lake north of the B4086 road, B4086 about north-west of Banbury. Today, it is the site of th ...

* Compton Wynyates * Coombe Abbey * Coombe Country Park * Coughton Court *

Coventry Canal The Coventry Canal is a navigable narrow canal in the Midlands of England. It starts in Coventry and ends to the north at Fradley Junction, just north of Lichfield, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. It also has connections with the ...

Draycote Water Draycote Water is a reservoir and country park near the village of Dunchurch, south of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, owned and operated by Severn Trent Water. It draws its water from the River Leam, and supplies drinking water to Rugby ...

Grand Union Canal The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the Canals of the United Kingdom, British canal system. It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another to Birmi ...

* Guy Fawkes House * Hartshill Hayes Country Park * Hatton Country World * Jephson Gardens * Kenilworth Castle * King Edward VI School * Kingsbury Water Park * Ladywalk Reserve * Lunt Roman Fort * Lord Leycester Hospital * Lowsonford * Mary Arden's House * Midland Air Museum * Newbold Quarry Park * Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery *

Oxford Canal The Oxford Canal is a narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just north of Coventry and south of Bedworth) via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to th ...

* Ragley Hall * River Avon * Rollright Stones * Royal Pump Rooms *

Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) (originally called the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) is a Grade II* listed 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespea ...

* Rugby Art Gallery and Museum *

Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

* Ryton Pools Country Park * Shakespeare's Birthplace * Shakespeare's New Place * St. Nicholas' Park * Swift Valley Nature Reserve * The Forest Hermitage *

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

Warwick Castle Warwick Castle is a medieval castle developed from a wooden fort, originally built by William I of England, William the Conqueror during 1068. Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England, situated on a meander of the River Avon, Warwic ...

* Warwick School * Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum * Wellesbourne Wartime Museum

Economy

Warwickshire has a strong and growing economy with the automotive industry being a major contributor. In the north, BMW's Hams Hall plant employs over 1,000 people, while Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin Lagonda have headquarters, including a giant advanced production creation centre, at Gaydon in the south. Warwickshire is also establishing a growing reputation as a global hub of the

video game industry The video game industry is the tertiary industry, tertiary and quaternary industry, quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the video game development, development, marketing, distribution (marketing), distribution, ...

. One of Britain's oldest still-running game studios, Codemasters, has operated out of Southam for decades; the greater " Silicon Spa" area, including Southam,

Royal Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply LeamingtonEven more colloquially, also referred to as Lem or Leam (). (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Pri ...

and

, is now home to dozens of game studios which employ a combined total of over 2,000 highly skilled people, equating to more than 10% of the UK's games development workforce. Increasingly the region is establishing itself as one of the leading areas in battery technology with major developments announced in 2021 that include a £130 million UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) based in Coventry. Tourism is also a key area of employment with country parks, rural areas and historic towns across the county. It generates a total business turnover of over £1 billion to the local economy and supports almost 20,000 jobs.

Settlements

Main Warwickshire towns and villages, with a population of at least 5,000: *

(88,813) * Rugby (78,117) *

(50,923) *

(36,665) * Bedworth (31,332) *

(30,055) *

(22,538) *

(11,259) * Whitnash (10,489) *

Polesworth Polesworth is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. It is situated close to the northern tip of the county, adjacent to the border with Staffordshire. It is eas ...

(9,913) * Southam (8,114) * Kingsbury (7,562) *

(7,283) * Coleshill (6,900) *

Bidford-on-Avon Bidford-on-Avon is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the England, English county of Warwickshire, very close to the border with Worcestershire. In the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census it had a population of 4 ...

(6,818) *

(6,421) * Bulkington (6,080) * Studley (6,040) * Shipston-on-Stour (5,849)

History

Warwickshire came into being as a division of the kingdom of

in the early 11th century. The first reference to Warwickshire was in 1001, as ''Wæringscīr,'' named after

. The prefix ''wara-'' is the

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of the

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''waru'', which means "those that care for, watch, guard, protect, or defend". It was used as an

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by both

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and Jutes. The suffix ''-wick'' is an

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(''-wic'') for the

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word for village, ''vicus''. Near

are the villages of Long Itchington and Bishop's Itchington along the River Itchen. During the

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Warwickshire was dominated by

, at the time one of the most important cities in England because of its prominence in the textiles trade. Warwickshire played a key part in the

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, with the Battle of Edgehill and other skirmishes taking place in the county. During the

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Warwickshire became one of Britain's foremost industrial counties, with the large industrial cities of

and

within its boundaries.

Boundary changes

*1844: The Counties (Detached Parts) Act transferred a township to, and two parishes from, the county. *1888: Those parts of the town of Tamworth lying in Warwickshire were ceded to Staffordshire. *1891:

Harborne Harborne is an affluent area sited south-west of Birmingham, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is a Birmingham City Council ward (politics), ward in the Government of Birmingham, England#Districts, formal district and ...

became part of the County Borough of Birmingham and thus was transferred from Staffordshire to Warwickshire by the Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 13) Act 1891 ( 54 & 55 Vict. c. clxi) (local act). *1891: The district of Balsall Heath, which had originally constituted the most northerly part of the Parish of King's Norton in Worcestershire, was added to the County Borough of Birmingham, and therefore Warwickshire, on 1 October 1891. *1909: Quinton was formally removed from Worcestershire and incorporated into the County Borough of Birmingham, then in Warwickshire, on 9 November 1909. *1911: The Urban District of Handsworth, in Staffordshire, and the

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of Yardley along with the greater part of the Urban District of King's Norton and Northfield, both in Worcestershire, were absorbed into Birmingham, and thus Warwickshire, as part of the ''Greater Birmingham Scheme'' on 9 November 1911. *1928:

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Urban District was ceded to Birmingham from Staffordshire. *1931: The boundaries between Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire were adjusted by the Provisional Order Confirmation (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) Act which transferred 26 parishes between the three counties, largely to eliminate

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. The town of Shipston-on-Stour was gained from Worcestershire and several villages, including Long Marston and Welford-on-Avon, from

, while the parish of Ipsley was ceded from

Rural District to

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Urban District in Worcestershire. *1969: Matchborough was ceded to Worcestershire as part of the

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development of Redditch. *1974: Under The

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, Birmingham,

and

were ceded to the new

, with Sutton Coldfield becoming part of Birmingham.

Local government

Like most English shire counties, Warwickshire has a two-tier

of a

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, and five

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each having a district or borough council. These districts are:

North Warwickshire North Warwickshire is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, England. The borough includes the two towns of Atherstone (where the council is based) and Coleshill, and the large villages of Hartshill, Kingsbury, Ma ...

, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford, and

(see map). The county and district councils are responsible for providing different services.

is the headquarters of the North Warwickshire district,

is headquarters of the Nuneaton and Bedworth District and

is the headquarters of the Warwick district. Warwickshire County Council, based in

is elected every four years. The last election was the held on 6 May 2021 and resulted in a Conservative majority. The county council operates a cabinet-style council. The county council is made of 57 councillors, who decide upon the budget and appoints the council leader. The council leader selects 8 councillors and together they form the cabinet. The Leader assigns portfolios on which cabinet members make decisions. Key decisions are made by the whole cabinet while others are made only by the portfolio holders for relevant areas. In addition many small towns and villages have their own

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or parish council as the most local tier of local government. Warwickshire is policed by the Warwickshire Police. The force is governed by the elected Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

Proposed local government reorganisation

In August 2020 Warwickshire County Council put forward proposals for the five district and borough councils in the county to be abolished and replaced with a single county-wide

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. This prompted a backlash from the district and borough councils who commissioned their own report, which argued in favour of Warwickshire being split into two unitary authorities, one for the north of the county, covering the current districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth and Rugby, and one for the south of the county, covering Warwick and Stratford districts. In September 2020, it was agreed that both proposals would be sent for consideration to the

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Education

In the state sector, children start school in the school year in which they turn five. They stay at primary school for seven years (although this varies even within the county, as some people have previously gone for four years and then spent another four years at a 'middle school') until they are eleven. Warwickshire is one of 36 local authorities in England to still maintain the

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system in two districts: Stratford-on-Avon and Rugby. In the final year of primary school, children are given the opportunity of sitting the 11-plus exam to compete for a place at one of the 5 grammar schools: Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls; King Edward VI School, a boys' school from year 7–11 with a mixed Sixth-Form; Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School for Boys; Rugby High School for Girls and Alcester Grammar School (mixed). The Warwickshire 11+ selection test consists of two papers, each containing a mixture of verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and non-verbal reasoning multiple-choice questions. Warwickshire contains four colleges of further education: North Warwickshire & Hinckley College, King Edward VI Sixth Form College (K.E.G.S) in Nuneaton, Stratford-upon-Avon College and the Warwickshire College Group an institution made up of six main separate colleges that have merged (Leamington Centre, Rugby Centre, Moreton Morrell Centre, Pershore College, Henley-in-Arden Centre and the Trident Centre in Warwick). There are also six independent senior schools within the county, namely:

, Warwick School, Princethorpe College, Kingsley School, Arnold Lodge School (both in

), and the King's High School For Girls (in

). A number of the Warwickshire grammar and independent schools have historical significance. King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon still uses 13th century school buildings and is the likely school of

was founded in 1567 and Warwick School was founded , which makes it the oldest surviving boys' school in the country.

is one of nine schools that were defined as the "great" English public schools by the Public Schools Act 1868, and is a member of the Rugby Group.

, Princethorpe College and Warwick School are HMC schools, with the Headmaster from each school attending the

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. There are no universities per se in Warwickshire, though the

forms part of the border with Warwickshire on the southern edge of the city of Coventry. Some areas of the University of Warwick are within the boundaries of Warwickshire including Lakeside Village and Warwick Business School The university has a small campus near Wellesbourne which houses the Warwick Horticultural Research Centre and an Innovation Centre.

Transport

Roads

Several major

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s run through Warwickshire; these are: *The

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, which connects

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, runs through the centre of the county; it serves Leamington Spa, Warwick and Stratford. *The

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, which connects

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and the West Midlands to the

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(and then on to London), runs through the north of Warwickshire; it serves Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth on its way to Birmingham. *The M69 Coventry to Leicester motorway serves Nuneaton. *Other motorways pass briefly through Warwickshire including the M45 (a short spur south of Rugby connecting to the M1), the southern end of the M6 Toll and the M42; it passes through the county at several points. Other major trunk routes in Warwickshire include: * A45 takes a route through Birmingham, Coventry and Rugby, then east into Northamptonshire * A46 connects the M40 to the M6 via Warwick, Kenilworth and Coventry * A452 Leamington to Birmingham route * A5 passes through

and then east of Nuneaton, and then east of Rugby, it marks the county boundary with Leicestershire. * A444 goes through Nuneaton and Bedworth.

Railway

Main line routes

Two main railway lines pass through Warwickshire: * The Chiltern Main Line takes the former

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route from

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to . It passes through the centre of Warwickshire on a route similar to the M40 motorway and has stations at , , , and . Services are provided by

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and West Midlands Trains (Birmingham to Leamington only). There are also two branches off the Chiltern line: the Leamington to Coventry and Leamington-Stratford lines. * The

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(WCML) runs through Warwickshire. At , the WCML splits into two parts: one runs west through to

and

, and the other the Trent Valley Line runs north-west towards , North West England and

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. This section has stations at , and (northbound services only). There is one branch off the WCML from Nuneaton to Coventry, with there are stations at , and .

Other lines

Other railway lines in Warwickshire include: * Birmingham-Nuneaton section of the Birmingham to Peterborough Line, which continues east of Nuneaton towards

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and

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. Nuneaton has direct services to Birmingham and Leicester on this line; there are two intermediate stations at and Coleshill in the extreme north-west of the county. * North Warwickshire Line from Birmingham to . This line used to continue southwards to

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, but is now a dead-end branch. There is an intermediate station on this line at and at several small villages. Stratford also has direct rail services to London via the branch line to Warwick. Between 1965 and 2018, the only major town in Warwickshire without a station was

. The Leamington to Coventry line passes through the town, but the station was closed as part of the Beeching cuts. Kenilworth railway station was rebuilt and opened in April 2018, with an hourly service to Coventry and to Leamington provided by West Midlands Trains.

High Speed 2

The new

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(HS2) line is a long-distance route that is being constructed through Warwickshire; however, there will be no stations in the county. It will pass south of Southam, then between Kenilworth and Coventry, before running into the West Midlands towards Birmingham.

Air

Coventry Airport is located in the Warwickshire village of Baginton.

Canals and waterways

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s and navigable waterways in Warwickshire include: *The

, which runs through the north of the county from

through Bedworth,

and

, and then onwards to Tamworth. *The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal passes briefly through Warwickshire from a junction with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth. *The

runs from near Coventry, then eastwards around Rugby and through the rural south of the county towards

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. *The

runs through Leamington and Warwick, then onwards to Birmingham. **The restored Saltisford Canal Arm is close to the centre of Warwick and is now a short branch of the Grand Union Canal. The arm is the remains of the original terminus of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal; it dates back to 1799. *The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs from the Grand Union west of Warwick to Stratford, where it joins the Avon. *The River Avon runs through Warwickshire on a south-west to north-east axis, running through Stratford, Warwick and Rugby. It is navigable for from the

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at Tewkesbury to Alveston

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just east of Stratford-upon-Avon, making it the only navigable river in Warwickshire. There have been proposals to extend the Avon navigation to Warwick. However, as of 2019, these plans look unlikely to proceed.

Media

Television

The county is covered by BBC West Midlands and ITV Central from its studios in

. Television signals are received from either the Lark Stoke or

TV transmitters.

Radio

BBC Local Radio for the county is served by BBC CWR which broadcast from its studios in

. However, the

area is served by BBC Radio WM. County-wide commercial radio stations are Capital Mid-Counties, Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire, Fresh (Coventry & Warwickshire), Heart West Midlands and Greatest Hits Radio Midlands.

Sport

Cycling

Warwickshire's rural roads, canal towpaths and historic towns are increasingly popular with cycling enthusiasts. Its reputation as a major cycling destination has been bolstered in recent years having hosted a stage of the Women's Tour since 2016 and the Men's Tour of Britain in 2018 and 2019. In 2022, St Nicholas Park in Warwick hosted the ''Elite Men's and Women's Road Race'' as part of the

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that took place in Birmingham.

Association football

Warwickshire has no

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clubs. As of the 2022–23 season, the highest-placed team is Leamington, who play in the

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, the sixth tier of English football. A level below, in the

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Premier Division Central, are Nuneaton Borough and Stratford Town. Other clubs include Rugby Town, Bedworth United, Southam United, Racing Club Warwick, Coleshill Town, Atherstone Town and Nuneaton Griff; all of these are affiliated to the Birmingham FA. Aston Villa, a

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team, and Football League clubs

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and Coventry City are located within the historic boundaries of Warwickshire; National League club Solihull Moors and Southern League Division One Central club Sutton Coldfield Town are also sited in this area.

Parkrun

There are six Saturday morning 5 km parkruns in Warwickshire for all ages and abilities: Leamington, Stratford upon Avon, Rugby, Bedworth, Southam and Kingsbury. There are also three Sunday 2 km junior events at Stratford upon Avon, Rugby and Warwick.

Cricket

play at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, which was historically part of Warwickshire. Notable English players for the side have been Eric Hollies,

M.J.K. Smith Michael John Knight Smith , better known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith, (born 30 June 1933) is an English double international, in cricket and in rugby union. He was captain of Oxford University Cricket Club (1956), Warwickshire ...

, Bob Willis, Dennis Amiss, Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell, Moeen Ali and

Chris Woakes Christopher Roger Woakes (born 2 March 1989) is an English cricketer who plays internationally for England cricket team, England in all formats. In domestic cricket, he represents Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire, and has played i ...

. Overseas players have included Alvin Kallicharran, Rohan Kanhai,

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, Allan Donald and

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. In 2014, the club partly severed its links to the county by renaming its

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side the '' Birmingham Bears'', much to the chagrin of many supporters. Other grounds in modern-day Warwickshire which have hosted first-class cricket matches are: * Griff and Coton Ground,

– 26 matches (most recently 1980) * Arlington Avenue,

– 4 matches (most recently 1910) * Swan's Nest Lane,

– 3 matches (most recently 2005) * Weddington Road,

– 3 matches (most recently 1914)

Gaelic sports

The Warwickshire County Board of the

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(GAA) (or Warwickshire GAA) is one of the county boards outside

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and is responsible for

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in Warwickshire. The county board is also responsible for the Warwickshire inter-county teams. They play their home games at Páirc na hÉireann.

Polo

The Dallas Burston Polo Club is a six-pitch

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club located near Southam.

Water polo

Warwick Water Polo club play in the Midland League, and train in Warwick, Banbury and Coventry.

Freedom of the county

In March 2014 the freedom of the county was bestowed on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. The honour was officially bestowed following a parade through

on 6 June 2014.

People

Warwickshire was the birthplace of

from

. Road signs at the county boundary describe Warwickshire as "Shakespeare's County". The county has produced figures such as

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...

(from

and

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(from

), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and

Michael Drayton Michael Drayton ( – ) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era, continuing to write through the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I. Many of his works consisted of historical poetry. He was also the fir ...

(from

). The poet Philip Larkin lived in Warwick (born in nearby Coventry). Folk musician Nick Drake lived and died in Tanworth-in-Arden.

Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 fo ...

the inventor of the jet engine was born in Coventry and was closely associated with Warwickshire, growing up in Leamington Spa, and carrying out much of his work at Rugby.

Notes

References

External links

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Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG)

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Geography

Arden and Felden

Historic county boundaries

Green belt

Places of interest

Economy

Settlements

History

Boundary changes

Local government

Proposed local government reorganisation

Education

Transport

Roads

Railway

Main line routes

Other lines

High Speed 2

Air

Canals and waterways

Media

Television

Radio

Sport

Cycling

Association football

Parkrun

Cricket

Gaelic sports

Polo

Water polo

Freedom of the county

People

See also

Notes

References

External links