Rugby (borough)

Rugby is a local government district and borough in eastern Warwickshire, England. It comprises the town of Rugby (the administrative headquarters) and the surrounding countryside.

The town of Rugby was given the status of a municipal borough in 1932. The present borough was created on April 1st 1974 when the Rugby municipal borough was merged with the Rugby Rural District.

Nearly 89,000 people live in the Rugby borough. of those roughly 63,000 live in the town of Rugby, and the remaining 26,000 live in the rural areas surrounding the town.

The borough borders the Warwickshire districts of Warwick to the south-west, Stratford to the south, and Nuneaton and Bedworth to the north-west. To the west it borders Coventry and to the east Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

Parishes and settlements

Other than Rugby itself the borough includes:

• Ansty,
• Binley Woods, Birdingbury, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Brandon, Bretford, Brinklow, Broadwell, Burton Hastings
• Church Lawford, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Copston Magna, Cosford
• Dunchurch, Draycote
• Easenhall
• Frankton, Flecknoe
• Grandborough
• Harborough Magna
• Kings Newnham
• Leamington Hastings, Little Lawford, Long Lawford
• Marton, Monks Kirby,
• Newnham Regis, Newton
• Pailton, Princethorpe
• Ryton-on-Dunsmore
• Sawbridge, Shilton, Stretton Baskerville, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stretton-under-Fosse
• Thurlaston
• Wibtoft, Willey, Willoughby, Withybrook, Wolston, Wolvey.

• Abandoned village Wolfhampcote
• Roman settlement Tripontium