Kenilworth - Modern Kenilworth

Modern Kenilworth

Modern Kenilworth is frequently regarded as a dormitory town for commuters to Coventry, Birmingham and Leamington Spa. Despite its proximity to the University of Warwick on Coventry's southern outskirts, it has only a small student population of mostly postgraduate students, although many staff at the university choose to live in Kenilworth.

The town has good road and air links. The A46 bypass was opened in June 1974 and the Birmingham International Airport, and M6, M42 and M40 motorways are within 10 miles (16 km) of central Kenilworth.

There is a regular bus service to Coventry and Leamington Spa railway stations, and Warwick Parkway is less than 10 minutes' drive away.

Currently the central retailing areas in and around Talisman Square are being modernised and the shop are being enlarged. In 2008 Waitrose opened a supermarket in Kenilworth and national chain Robert Dyas opened a 'new format' store in November 2011. There are also plans to renovate the existing public library buildings. The town's old youth centre was demolished in 2007 to make way for the new supermarket, and a new one was built.

In the early 1980s a company called Kenilworth Computers based near the Clock Tower launched a version of the Nascom microcomputer with the selling point that it was robust enough to be used in an agricultural environment.