... Coventry. Graph Seven: Self assessment of the population's health. Graph Eight: Number of Cars and Vans per household. Historical information Coventry is a medieval city. Earliest records of the city were in approximately 700 AD when a small settlement on the edge of the Forest of Arden known as Cofa's tree was noted. From there Coventry continued to expand and develop. Coventry is an industrial city well known for its car industry. The birth of the car industry was important for Coventry where the cycle industry had left a highly skilled workforce. Today, LTI (The London Taxi Institute), Peugeot and Jaguar are all still based in the city, and a quarter of the working population are still manufacturing based. (Brooks 2000). Between 1901 and 1961 Coventry was Britain's fastest growing city as people flooded there to work in the motor industry. Since the fall in car manufacturing in the city the population has ...

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