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Originally Posted by Madhatter
I've typed out an answer but its ended up so much the same as wills its a waste of time posting it.
It's strange because I've spend two days thinking, and came up with the fact we are in the country yet surrounded by cities especially here in Norh Warwickshire.
The canal also features prominantly here In North Warwickshire as it does now in Stratford.
Tourist attractions, I think Warwickshire itself is limited, Stratford, Shakespeare, Warwick Castle, Rugby museum,The canals, The motor museum in coventry but coventry is technically west mids now. Plenty around Atherstone, The bookshops in Atherstone, twycross zoo, drayton manor(tamworth), Bosworth Battlefield, Battlefield steam railway, conkers, plantasia, the country park and maze world at Atherstone, including Britains biggest garden centre(dobies), NEC, is just accross in west mids, lots golf courses, lots more country parks.
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"West Midlands" doesn't exist as a county, except ceremonially - it was abolished in 1986. Coventry's a Metropolitan Single Tier authority. It's not in Warwickshire, although many people still consider it to be so. Traditionally, it was in Warwickshire, but was also - for some 400 years plus - a county in its own right ("The County of the City of Coventry") until parliamentary reforms in the Victorian times put a stop to it. However, some hangovers from Coventry's time as a county are evident - the old courthouse in the city centre is the County Court (As in the county of Coventry.)
The county was small, but was created due to the imbalance in Warwickshire. Warwick was the county town with tax raising powers, coroners and courts, yet it was much smaller and less important than Coventry. This caused some conflict. Prob with some bribery, the King proclaimed that Coventry could be a county and have its own court. The Walled City of Coventry was the County town, and eleven villages around it were "in" the County. (Parliament was actually held in Coventry a couple of times.)
Coventry was bundled with the Brum Conurbation as part of the "West Midlands County" and lost a lot of powers - however, the Tories pledged to abolish these huge authorities and when they came to power, they did so.
Cov should never have been bundled in with Brum/Black country. It isn't part of the conurbation, and forms an indentified economic sub region stretching from Hinckley down to the Warwick/Leamington conurbation.