a market-town of the county of Warwick, in the hundred of Knightlow, eighty-four miles from London. It is situated on the Grand Junction Canal, and has a good market on Saturday. The free-school here is celebrated, and has educated many youths of the first families of the kingdom. The population amounted in 1801 to 1487, in 1811 to 1805, in 1821 to 2300, and in 1831 to 2501.