Griff, Warwickshire

Griff is a hamlet in the Nuneaton and Bedworth district of Warwickshire, England.

[1] Griff Quarry produces 260,000 tonnes (290,000 tons) of aggregate annually.

[2] Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was brought up at Griff House, now a hotel.

Griff is likely represented in Eliot's novel Middlemarch as "Frick", which is described as "[Mr Solomon's] side of Lowick was the most remote from the village, and the houses of the labouring people were either lone cottages or were collected in a hamlet called Frick, where a water-mill and some stone-pits made a little centre of slow, heavy-shouldered industry.

"[citation needed] Now it’s mostly just the A444, grasslands and Coventry Road which leads into Bedworth.