Bulkington
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Bulkington is a large village in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, UK. In the 2001 census it had a population of 6,303. It is located around 10 km (6 miles) northeast of Coventry, and also lies just east of the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth.
Bulkington was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Bochintone meaning 'town of the beech trees'. Weaving was historically the main industry in Bulkington, which was brought to the area by French Huguenots in the 17th century. Today Bulkington is largely a commuter village for larger nearby urban centres such as Coventry, Nuneaton, Bedworth, Hinckley and Leicester. Bulkington has connections with the locally born author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), who knew the village well. She referred to it as Raveloe in her book Silas Marner (1861). The church of St James's is where George Eliot's uncle and aunt are buried.
The major schools in Bulkington are St James Church of England Junior School and Arden Forest Infant School with a combined total of approximately 420 pupils.
The village has been declared a conservation area and no major housing or industrial development is permitted.
[edit] References
- Warwickshire Towns & Villages, by Geoff Allen, 2000 ISBN 1-85058-642-X
