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Ryton-on-Dunsmore is a village and civil parish in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, south-east of Coventry, England. The 2001 census recorded a population of 1,672 in the parish, increasing to 1,813 at the 2011 Census. The A45 dual carriageway passes through the village.Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic-growing charity, has a 10acre demonstration garden dedicated to organic gardening in the village. Ryton Pools Country Park is about a mile south-west of the village.Car plantThe former factory was a key feature of the village for more than 60 years. It was situated between the A45 and the A423 in Warwickshire. The south-east of the factory site bordered with Ryton-on-Dunsmore village.The factory was originally constructed by the Rootes Group in 1940 to build aircraft engines during the Second World War. After the war it became the headquarters of the Rootes Group, but when the organisation entered financial difficulties in the 1960s, the company and thus the plant was taken over by the American car-making giant Chrysler. Chrysler itself entered financial difficulties and sold the plant for a symbolic US$1.00 to PSA Peugeot Citroën in 1978, and from this stage all cars produced at the plant were badged as Talbots - reviving an old brand name to replace the Chrysler brand in Britain and the Simca name on the continent.

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