Nuneaton

Nuneaton, a thriving market-town of Warwickshire, on the river Anker and the Coventry Canal, 22 m. E. of Birmingham; has a Gothic church; cotton, woollen, and worsted spinning is the chief industry; was the scene of George Eliot's education.

Population (circa 1900) given as 12,000.

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