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.
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| Fig. 1.—Honeybee (Apis mellifica). a, male (drone); b, queen, c, worker. |
| (After Benton, Bull. 1 (n.s.) Div. Ent., U.S. Dept. Agr.). |
