The Warwickshire is a British county located at the center of the England.

Geography

Warwickshire is limited to the North-West by the county of the West the Midlands and the Staffordshire, in the North-East by the Leicestershire, in the east by the Northamptonshire, in the south by the Oxfordshire, in south-west by the Gloucestershire and in the west by the Worcestershire.

The majority of the population of Warwickshire lives in the north and the center of the county. The towns of market of the north and the east of Warwickshire (Atherstone, Bedworth, Nuneaton and Rugby) were industrialized at the 19th century. Among important industries one counted the extraction of coal, the textile, the engineering and the production of cement, but heavy industry declining, is replaced by distribution centers, the small ones and average industries and the services. Cities of north and is, alone Rugby (birthplace of the play of Rugby) is known outside Warwickshire. Among the prosperous cities of Warwickshire of the center and west one finds Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick, with the small ones and average industries, the services and tourism as suppliers of the most important employment.

The south of the county especially rural and is slightly populated; it includes/understands a small area of the Cotswolds. The only city in the south of Warwickshire is Shipston-on-Stour. The highest point of the county, to 261 m, is the hill of Ebrington on the border with Gloucestershire.

More the big cities in Warwickshire (figures of 2004) are: Nuneaton (77 500), Rugby (62 700), Leamington Spa (45 300) and Bedworth (32 500).

Historically, most of Western Warwickshire, including the area forming now part of Birmingham and with West the Midlands, was covered by the old woman Forêt of Arden (although it mainly disappeared to provide fuel to the industrialization of XVIIe at the XIXe centuries). For this reason, the names of a certain number of places in this north-western part of Warwickshire end in “- in-Arden”.

External bonds

• the Council of the County of Warwickshire

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Simple: Warwickshire

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