Bedworth

Bedworth, a manufacturing town in the Nuneaton parliamentary division of Warwickshire, England; on the Nuneaton-Coventry branch of the London & North Western railway, 100 m. north-west from London. Pop. (1900) 7169. A tramway connects with Coventry, and the Coventry canal passes through. Coal and ironstone are mined; there are iron-works, and bricks, hats, ribbons and tape and silk are made. Similar industries are pursued in the populous district (including the villages of Exhall and Foleshill) which extends southward towards Coventry.

Fig. 1.—Honeybee (Apis mellifica). a, male (drone); b, queen, c, worker.

(After Benton, Bull. 1 (n.s.) Div. Ent., U.S. Dept. Agr.).