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Borough of Rugby
Shown within Warwickshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Warwickshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 136th 353.56 km�
Admin. HQ:	Rugby
ONS code:	44UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 254th 88,783 251 / km�
Ethnicity:	94.0% White 3.5% S.Asian
Politics
Rugby Borough Council http://www.rugby.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Bill Olner, Andy King

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 borough status in 1932, and had the status of an urban district. The present borough was formed on April 1, 1974 when the Rugby urban district was merged with several surrounding rural districts.

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.

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

Districts of England - West Midlands
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 \| Warwick \| Walsall \| Wolverhampton \| Worcester \| Wychavon \| Wyre Forest
Administrative Counties with multiple districts: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire

Categories: Warwickshire

Results from FactBites:

Rugby - encyclopedia article about Rugby. (1155 words)
	Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in the county of Warwickshire in central England on the River Avon.
	Rugby School Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding schools in the country.
	Rugby Rural District The Rugby Rural District was a former rural district created in 1894, which covered the rural areas surrounding the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, England.

Rugby (borough) - definition of Rugby (borough) in Encyclopedia (113 words)
	Rugby is a local government district with borough status in eastern Warwickshire, England.
	It comprises the town of Rugby (the administrative headquarters) and the surrounding countryside.
	The town of Rugby was given borough status in 1932, and had the status of an urban district.

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