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The County of Warwick is a shire in the Midlands. Parts of the county are heavily urbanised, and in particular Birmingham and its suburbs form Britain's second city (albeit that Manchester in Lancashire contests the title), and Coventry to the east is another major centre.

The county town, from which the county takes its name, is Warwick, but its largest town by far is Birmingham, the heart of a vast conurbation spreading over much of Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

Warwickshire can boast of being the birthplace of the British imagination, for this is Shakespeare's own county. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564 and died there on 23 April 1616. Warwickshire has also produced other literary figures such as George Eliot (from Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton from Hartshill. The poet Philip Larkin lived in Warwick (born in nearby Coventry), and Elizabeth Gaskell went to school in Barford and Stratford.