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Bulkington
Sign in to saveBulkington is a large village and former civil parish near Bedworth, in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2011 census the ward had a population of 6,146 decreasing slightly to 6,080 at the 2021 census. It is located around northeast of Coventry, just south of the town of Nuneaton, east of Bedworth and southwest of Hinckley. Despite historically having stronger links with Bedworth, Bulkington forms part of the Nuneaton Urban Area. Bulkington was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Bochintone, meaning "estate associated with a man called Bulca".
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Place details
- Locality
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Medieval
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- Political representation
- Civic history
- Religion and church history
- Parish Church of St James
- Bulkington Congregational Church
- Ryton Methodist Church
- Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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- Demography
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Bulkington is a large village and former civil parish near Bedworth, in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2011 census the ward had a population of 6,146 decreasing slightly to 6,080 at the 2021 census. It is located around northeast of Coventry, just south of the town of Nuneaton, east of Bedworth and southwest of Hinckley. Despite historically having stronger links with Bedworth, Bulkington forms part of the Nuneaton Urban Area. Bulkington was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Bochintone, meaning "estate associated with a man called Bulca".
The parish originally contained seven hamlets, two of which were subsumed by Bulkington village following residential building expansion which began in the 1930s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bulkington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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