Warwickshire is made famous because it is the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford upon Avon. Even today, it is often described as Shakespeare's County.
Warwickshire shares its borders with West Midlands metropolitan county in the northwest and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire in the northeast, with Northamptonshire in the east, Worcestershire in the west, Oxfordshire in the south and Gloucestershire in the southwest. This English county covers an area of almost 2,000 sq km as it is spread for 96 km or 60 miles from north to south.
Most of its population stay in the centre and north of the county. The market towns of the county were industrialized in the 19th century such as Atherstone, Bedworth, Nuneaton and Rugby. Major industries included textiles, coal mining, engineering and cement production, but it does not have heavy industry. Of all its towns, only Nuneaton and Rugby, because rugby football was born here, are known outside of Warwickshire. There are some more flourished towns of central and western Warwickshire like Alcester, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Stratford upon Avon. Warwick has light to medium industries, where as services and tourism are other important employment sectors.
In the south, the county is mostly rural and very less populated, including a small region of the Cotswolds. Only one town is there in the south of Warwickshire, Shipston on Stour. The apex point is at Ebrington Hill on 261 m or 856 ft, on the boundary of a far north side at Gloucestershire. Forest of Arden was sprawled over most of the western Warwickshire and the area that now forms a part of Birmingham and West Midlands, although in the 17th to 19th centuries most of it was cut down to make fuel available for industrialization.
In the early 11th century, Warwickshire was created as a division of the kingdom of Mercia. During the Medieval periods Warwickshire was overshadowed by Coventry, which was famous due to its textiles trade in the middle of England. Warwickshire played a major role in the English Civil War, with the Battle of Edgehill and other conflicts took place in the county.
When the Industrial Revolution came, Warwickshire was declared foremost industrial counties of England, with the big industrial cities of Birmingham and Coventry in its boundaries. Changes in its borders in 1974 moved Birmingham and Coventry out of Warwickshire, leaving the county with a rather peculiar shape that looks as if a large piece has been eaten out of it.
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