Bermuda is a suburb of

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 ...

in the English county of

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. Bermuda was originally a small

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built in 1893 to house workers for the Griff Colliery Company's new mine, "Griff Clara". The village initially consisted of ninety miners' houses, a

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, and a mission hall. The new construction replaced the former workers' housing, known as "the Old Row". Bermuda was named for local landowner Edward Newdegate, a former

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. The village was constructed next to local transportation and industrial infrastructure, including the Griff Arm of the

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and the Stanley

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. Bermuda Village itself is preserved by planning regulations as an "area of restraint", meaning that no major redevelopment should take place in the village itself. Bermuda Park was built on land next to Bermuda Village in the mid-2000s. It is a large modern housing estate with some notable features such as a village green, a large artificial hill (known locally as "Mount Bermuda") and Bermuda Lake. The estate backs onto open countryside near Arbury Hall and a large industrial and leisure park. The estate is supported by Bermuda Park Community, an organisation focussed on improving the quality of life for residents of the area. The

Bermuda Park railway station Bermuda Park railway station is a railway station in the Bermuda area of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. It serves the Bermuda Park Industrial Estate, on the Coventry to Nuneaton Line between the existing stations at and . Funding for the ne ...

was opened serving the area in 2016. The village made it to national and even international headlines in 1972 when a large dump of

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was discovered on a children's playground, probably sourced from the local car industry. This eventually lead to a change in legislation that made dumping dangerous waste illegal. Bermuda contains “Bermuda Park” which has an Odeon Cinema, Bowling alley, Soft Play Area, Hotel, KFC, McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway and a restaurant Middlemarch Farm. It’s located South of the Bermuda housing area, Its on the A444 ‘Griff Lane’. On 22 October 2017, a gunman, David Clarke, aged 53, stormed into the bowling alley. He took many hostages and made national headlines. Eventually he pleaded guilty to two counts of false imprisonment, one count of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, one count of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence, two counts of possession of a bladed article in a public place and one count of criminal damage.

References

A trip to Bermuda, by Peter Lee

External links

Bermuda Park Community Website
* Populated places established in 1893 Areas of Nuneaton {{Warwickshire-geo-stub