Warwickshire

Warwickshire, central county of England; is traversed by the Avon, a tributary of the Severn; the north portion, which was at one time covered by the forest of Arden, is now, from its mineral wealth, one of the busiest industrial centres of England; it contains the birthplace of Shakespeare; Birmingham is the largest town.

Population (circa 1900) given as 805,000.

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