What is the name of the fictional town in George Eliot's 'Middlemarch'?

The fictional town in George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' is Middlemarch.

Published in eight installments during 1871 and 1872, 'Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life' follows the intersecting lives of Dorothea Brooke, Dr Tertius Lydgate, Fred Vincy, Mary Garth and other residents. The town is located in the English Midlands and is imagined as part of the county of North Loamshire.

Eliot drew on her knowledge of provincial communities, and Middlemarch is often associated with Coventry, where she lived before moving to London. The novel's setting is not merely a backdrop: its social networks, gossip, institutions and resistance to change shape the characters' choices. Events unfold mainly between September 1829 and May 1832, against the background of political reform, early railways and changing medical ideas.

A common mix-up is confusing Middlemarch with places from other Victorian novels. Barsetshire belongs to Anthony Trollope's fictional world, while Casterbridge is Thomas Hardy's setting in 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'.