Coventry (/ˈkɑːvəntri/ KAH-vən-tree) is a town in Tolland County and in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States.

to have been built near the shore of Wangumbaug Lake by Nathaniel Rust, a Hartford, Connecticut man, originally from Northampton, Massachusetts.

to have made their final move to Coventry from Massachusetts in a group of a dozen families in 1709.

Along with Nathaniel Rust, the names of some of the earliest settlers were David Lee, Thomas Root, Samuel Gurley, Ebenezer Searl, Joseph Petty, Benjamin James and Benjamin Carpenter.

The Connecticut General Assembly, held in Hartford in 1706, appointed William Pitkin, Joseph Tallcot, William Whiting and Richard Lord, as a committee with full power to lay out the bounds of the town and divisions of the land, to admit inhabitants.

A 1711 revision added Nathaniel Rust to the committee and the task of procuring a minister of the gospel.

The church is part of the Diocese of Norwich, located at 1600 Main Street in town.

In the 19th century, there was a small industrial center including mills powered by the water from Coventry Lake Brook as it flowed towards the Willimantic River.

South Coventry Village, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, also includes several Victorian houses, a museum, the main branch of the public library and the Bidwell Tavern, a bar/restaurant established in 1822.

North Coventry's settlement is less dense, and its housing and businesses are of more recent construction.

As the United States expanded westward, many farming families left the rocky fields of Connecticut for the more fertile land of the Ohio River valley.

Most of the farms in North Coventry were abandoned, and the land reclaimed by second-growth forest.