Editing Kenilworth (section)

===19th century to present===
With the demise of the defensive role of the castle, Kenilworth had ceased to be a place of national significance, but [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]]'s 1821 novel ''[[Kenilworth (novel)|Kenilworth]]'' brought it back to public attention, and helped establish the ruins of the castle as a major tourist attraction.<ref name="VKKH"/><ref name="KTCHOK">{{cite web |title=History of Kenilworthl |url=http://www.kenilworthtowncouncil.co.uk/history_of_kenilworth/4559464915/index.html |publisher=Kenilworth Town Council |access-date=11 September 2021}}</ref>

In the early 19th century Kenilworth was known for its horn [[comb]] making industry, which peaked in the 1830s.<ref name="VKKH"/><ref name="BHOLken"/>

Kenilworth was revolutionised by the arrival of the [[railway]] to the town in 1844, when the [[London and Birmingham Railway]] opened the [[Coventry to Leamington Line]], including [[Kenilworth railway station]]. The station was rebuilt in 1884 and a new link line was opened between Kenilworth and {{rws|Berkswell}} to bypass {{rws|Coventry}}. This closed to all traffic on 3 March 1969.<ref>[http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/kenilworthjunction.htm Warwickshire Railways – Kenilworth Junction]''Warwickshire Railways'' website article; Retrieved 3 September 2013</ref> The railway station was located to the south of the [[Finham Brook]] valley, and this caused the focus of settlement at Kenilworth to move south, away from the castle, and nearer to the railway station. Industrialists from [[Birmingham]] and [[Coventry]] arrived, developing the area around the town's railway station with residential and commercial buildings. In the 19th century Kenilworth had some fine large [[mansion]]s with landscaped gardens; these were demolished after the [[World War I|First World War]] and [[World War II|Second World War]] to make way for housing developments. The railway also brought a number of new industries to Kenilworth, such as [[Tanning (leather)|tanning]], [[brick]] making, and chemicals, and also caused substantial growth in Kenilworth's [[market gardening]], which became known for producing crops such as tomatoes and strawberries.<ref name="KTCHOK"/><ref name="BHOLken"/>

[[File:Kenilworth St Johns - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Parish church of St John the Evangelist]]
The town's growth occasioned the addition of a second [[Church of England parish church]], St John's, which is on Warwick Road in Knights Meadow. It was designed by [[Ewan Christian]] and built in 1851–1852 as a [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] building with a south-west [[bell tower]] and [[broach spire]].{{sfn |Pevsner |Wedgwood |1966 |p=319}} By the 1870s Kenilworth's population had exceeded 4,000.<ref name="KTCHOK"/>

[[File:Albion Street Kenilworth Antique Image Photograph Albion Tavern C. Brewer.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Albion Street & Albion Tavern]]
In 1869, local [[whitesmith]] and engineer [[Edward Langley Fardon]] demonstrated the first bicycle with [[Wire wheel|wire-spoked wheels]] and rubber tyres, riding from Warwick Road to [[Leek Wootton]].<ref name="Harringman">{{cite book| last = Harringman, Harmer & Harmer| title = The Fardons of Gloucestershire| publisher = Self published| year = 2018| pages = 43–45}}</ref>

During [[The Blitz]] in [[World War II]] on the night of 21 November 1940, a German aircraft dropped two [[parachute mine]]s on Kenilworth; the large explosions in the Abbey End area demolished a number of buildings, killing 25 people, and injuring 70 more. The bomb damaged area of the town was redeveloped in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |title=The war comes to Kenilworth |url=https://www.victoriankenilworth.co.uk/index.php/the-war-comes-to-kenilworth |publisher=Victorian Kenilworth |access-date=7 September 2021 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907191420/https://www.victoriankenilworth.co.uk/index.php/the-war-comes-to-kenilworth |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="VKKH"/>

In May 1961, the Kenilworth Society was formed over concerns about protecting a group of 17th-century listed cottages adjacent to Finham Brook in Bridge Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thekenilworthsociety.co.uk/ |title=The Kenilworth Society |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> The Society sets out to promote awareness of Kenilworth's character and encourage its preservation.

[[British Rail]] withdrew passenger services from the Coventry to Leamington Line and closed Kenilworth Station in January 1965 in line with ''[[Beeching Axe|The Reshaping of British Railways]]'' report. In May 1977, British Rail reinstated passenger services, but did not reopen Kenilworth station, which became derelict and was eventually demolished. In 2011 Warwick Council granted [[John Laing plc]] planning permission to build a new station,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://planning.warwickshire.gov.uk/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=WDC/10CC067 |title= Planning Application WDC/10CC067 |publisher=[[Warwickshire County Council]] |access-date=14 September 2011}}</ref> It finally reopened in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/green-light-for-kenilworth-station |publisher=[[Department for Transport]] |title=Green light for Kenilworth station |work=Press release |date=12 December 2013 |access-date=13 December 2013}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, the town's name was used by one of the first generation of computer retailers, a company called Kenilworth Computers based near the Clock Tower, for its repackaging of the [[Nascom]] microcomputer, with the selling point that it was robust enough to be used by agriculture.<ref>http://www.nascomhomepage.com/pdf/Kenilworth_case.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

Kenilworth was struck by [[1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak|an F0/T1 tornado]] on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide outbreak on that day.<ref>[http://www.eswd.eu/cgi-bin/eswd.cgi European Severe Weather Dabase Retrieved 10 November 2018.]</ref>