Rugby (borough)
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| Borough of Rugby | |
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 Shown within Warwickshire |  Warwickshire within England |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Borough |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Admin. County: | Warwickshire |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 136th 353.56 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Rugby |
| ONS code: | 44UD |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density | Ranked 253rd 89,240 252 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 94.0% White 3.5% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| Rugby Borough Council http://www.rugby.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | |
| MPs: | Bill Olner, Jeremy Wright |
Rugby is a local government district with borough status in eastern Warwickshire, England.
The district is named after its main town of Rugby where the council has its headquarters, but also includes the rural areas surrounding the town.
The town of Rugby had the status of a municipal borough since 1932. The present borough was created on 1 April 1974 when the Rugby municipal borough was merged with the Rugby Rural District, which had had a separate council for Rugby town.
Roughly 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 around the town.
The borough stretches from Coventry to the west, to the borders with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to the east. It borders the Warwickshire districts of Warwick to the south-west, Stratford to the south, and Nuneaton and Bedworth to the north-west.
The borough is divided into 20 wards, with 48 councillors.
Parishes and settlements
The borough of Rugby has 39 civil parishes, some of which contain several settlements. Rugby town is unparished and so does not have a separate town council.
Places in the borough include:
- Ansty,
- Barnacle, Binley Woods, Birdingbury, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Brandon, Bretford, Brinklow, Broadwell, Burton Hastings
- Church Lawford, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Coombe Fields, Copston Magna, Cosford
- Dunchurch, Draycote
- Easenhall
- Frankton, Flecknoe
- GrandboroughMissing image
Rugby_town_hall.jpgRugby town hall - The headquarters of Rugby Borough Council - Harborough Magna
- Kings Newnham
- Leamington Hastings, Little Lawford, Long Lawford
- Marton, Monks Kirby,
- Newnham Regis, Newton
- Pailton, Princethorpe
- Rugby, Ryton-on-Dunsmore
- Sawbridge, Shilton, Stretton Baskerville, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stretton-under-Fosse
- Thurlaston
- Wibtoft, Willey, Willoughby, Withybrook, Wolfhampcote, Wolston, Wolvey.
- Roman settlement Tripontium
| Districts of England - West Midlands | 
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Birmingham | Bridgnorth | Bromsgrove | Cannock Chase | Coventry | Dudley | East Staffordshire | Herefordshire | Lichfield | Malvern Hills | Newcastle-under-Lyme | North Shropshire | North Warwickshire | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Oswestry | Redditch | Rugby | Sandwell | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Solihull | South Shropshire | South Staffordshire | Stafford | Staffordshire Moorlands | Stoke-on-Trent | Stratford-on-Avon | Tamworth | Telford and Wrekin | Walsall | Warwick | Wolverhampton | Worcester | Wychavon | Wyre Forest | |
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Administrative Counties with multiple districts: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire |