BEDWORTH, a parish in the Kirby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 3 miles (S.) from Nuneaton, containing 3519 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £10. 3. ll., and in the patronage of the Earl of Aylesford. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has recently received an additional number of sittings, by means of a grant of £250 from the Incorporated Society for enlarging churches and chapels. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. Near the village is a coal mine, from which a railroad extends to the Ashby de la Zouch and Coventry canals, which form a junction within the parish, the latter terminating here. Two charity schools, and almshouses for twenty-four persons, are endowed with land producing £700 per annum, bequeathed by the Rev. Nicholas Chamberlain, in 1715.