Coventry

Coventry, a town in Warwickshire, 18½ m. SE. of Birmingham; famous for the manufacture of ribbons and watches, and recently the chief seat of the manufacture of bicycles and tricycles; in the old streets are some quaint old houses; there are some very fine churches and a number of charitable institutions.

Population (circa 1900) given as 55,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)