BEDWORTH

town, Nuneaton and Bedworth borough, administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, England. Coal mining, from two local pits, was important until it ceased at the end of the 20th century. Today Bedworth has a growing light engineering industry in a modern trading estate. Tapes, ribbons, and trimmings also are made. Bedworth and neighbouring Nuneaton have grown into a single built-up area. Corley Hall, to the west of Bedworth, is reputed to be the model for Hall Farm in George Eliot's Adam Bede. Pop. (1991) 31,932.