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The very name Nuneaton is derived from St. Mary's Abbey which, until the reformation was the home of Benedictine nuns who had settled in the tiny town of Etone. This, along with St. Nicolas? Parish Church and Chilvers Coton Parish Church, are silent witnesses to Nuneaton's Catholic past. Until the nineteenth Century, Nuneaton's Catholic population was negligible until Irish immigration from 1824. With a marked increase in the Catholic population which this brought about, there was a need for Mass and the sacraments, and so Mass started to be celebrated at Leather Mill Farm.