Hartshill
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Hartshill is a village in the borough
Borough
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 of North Warwickshire
North Warwickshire
North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England. The main town in the district is Atherstone where the council is based...

, England
England
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.

Hartshill is three miles from Nuneaton
Nuneaton
Nuneaton is the largest town in the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth and in the English county of Warwickshire.Nuneaton is most famous for its associations with the 19th century author George Eliot, who was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for...

 town centre but is still regarded as a suburb
Suburb
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 of the town despite being in the North Warwickshire
North Warwickshire
North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England. The main town in the district is Atherstone where the council is based...

 borough.

In the 2001 census, the civil parish of Hartshill had a population of 3,611 http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=800162&c=hartshill&d=16&e=15&g=493200&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1252646301218&enc=1&dsFamilyId=781.

Hartshill is famous for the writer Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.-Early life:He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham,...

who knew William Shakespeare. Drayton was born at Chapel Cottage in Hartshill Green in 1563. A school in Hartshill bears his name.

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