. The earth and its inhabitants .. . r ofWorcestershire. In its valley lie Alcester, the Roman Alauna, with many quaintold houses, and Studley, with the ruins of an abbey. Needles and fish-hooks aremanufactured in both these towns. Henley-in-Arden, a small market town,occupies almost the centre of the ancient Forest of Arden, between Studley andWarwick. 108 THE BEITISH ISLES. Coventry, on the Sherbourne, a small tributary of the Avon, is far morepopulous than either of the towns mentioned. Its name recalls the ancientconvent around which the first houses were built. Originally Coventry was apl
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . r ofWorcestershire. In its valley lie Alcester, the Roman Alauna, with many quaintold houses, and Studley, with the ruins of an abbey. Needles and fish-hooks aremanufactured in both these towns. Henley-in-Arden, a small market town,occupies almost the centre of the ancient Forest of Arden, between Studley andWarwick. 108 THE BEITISH ISLES. Coventry, on the Sherbourne, a small tributary of the Avon, is far morepopulous than either of the towns mentioned. Its name recalls the ancientconvent around which the first houses were built. Originally Coventry was aplace of processions and pilgrimages, and legends and popular sayings testify tothe reputation which it enjoyed during the Middle Ages. Best known amongstthese legends is that of Lady Godiva, the wife of Leofric, and Peeping Michaels Church, with a steeple 303 feet in height, is one of the finest Gothicedifices in the country. Formerly Coventry was noted for its cloth, but for its Fig. 58.— 1 : 88, t°|;5WoPBr. 2 Miles. present prosperity it is mainly dependent upon the manufacture of ribbons,which was introduced by French refugees who settled there after the revoca^-tion of the Edict of Nantes. Fokshill and Bedioorth, higher up on the Sher-bourne, carry on the same branches of industry, besides which the latter hassome collieries. Nuneaton, in the valley of the Anker, on the northern slope ofthe county, engages largely in cotton-spinning, whilst its neighbour Atherstone,in the same valley, in addition to collieries, carries on the manufacture of hatsand caps. WARWICKSHIRE. 109 Birmingham, the largest town of Warwickshire, does not lie within the basinof the Severn, for it is built upon the undulating ground extending on both sidesof the river Rea, a tributary of the Tame, which discharges its waters throughthe Humber into the German Ocean. In Doomsday Book the city is calledBermingeham. This afterwards became corrupted into Bromwycham, or Br
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