Bulkington

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Description

Bulkington is a large village and former parish in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 6,303. From the 2011 Census Bulkington was shown as a ward of Nuneaton and Bedworth. Itrs population at the census was 6,146. It is located around 6mi north-east of Coventry, just east of the towns of Nuneaton and Bedworth and 4mi south-west of Hinckley. Despite historically having stronger links with Bedworth, Bulkington forms part of the Nuneaton Urban Area.Bulkington was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Bochintone, meaning "estate associated with a man called Bulca". The parish originally contained seven hamlets, two of which were subsumed by Bulkington village following residential building expansion which began in the 1930s. Historically the main industry in Bulkington was ribbon weaving. 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 Ann Evans), who knew the village well. She referred to it as Raveloe in her book Silas Marner (1861). The church of St James is where George Eliot's uncle and aunt are buried.

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Summary

Bulkington is Coventry based place and this enity listed in City category.