38 Facts About Rugby Warwickshire

Rugby Warwickshire is the most easterly town within the West Midlands region, with the nearby county borders marking the regional boundary with the East Midlands.

Rugby Warwickshire became a market town in 1255, but remained a small and fairly unimportant town until the 19th century.

In 1140 the first recorded mention was made of St Andrew's Church which was originally a chapel of the mother church at Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, until Rugby Warwickshire was established as a parish in its own right in 1221.

Until the 19th century, Rugby Warwickshire was a small and relatively unimportant settlement, with only its school giving it any notability.

In 1663 Rugby Warwickshire was recorded as containing 160 houses with a population of around 650.

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Rugby Warwickshire was transformed into a railway town, and the influx of railway workers and their families rapidly expanded the population.

Rugby Warwickshire expanded rapidly in the early decades of the 20th century as workers moved in.

Rugby Warwickshire's status was upgraded to that of a municipal borough in 1932, and its boundaries were expanded to incorporate the formerly separate villages of Bilton, Hillmorton, Brownsover and Newbold-on-Avon which have become suburbs of the town.

Rugby Warwickshire is most famous for the invention of rugby football, which is played throughout the world.

Rugby Warwickshire School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece Tom Brown's Schooldays, published in 1857.

Rugby Warwickshire School is said to have been a major inspiration behind the revival of the Olympic Games: the French educator, and father of the modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin, visited Rugby Warwickshire School several times in the late 19th century, and cited the school as one of his major inspirations behind his decision to revive the Olympic Games.

Holography was invented in Rugby Warwickshire in 1947, by the Hungarian born inventor Dennis Gabor, while working at BTH.

Rugby Warwickshire includes the areas of New Bilton, Overslade, Hillside and the partially constructed Houlton housing development.

The spread of Rugby Warwickshire has nearly reached the villages of Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Cawston, Dunchurch and Long Lawford.

Rugby Warwickshire was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'Butterfieldtown' due to the number of buildings designed by William Butterfield in the 19th century, including much of Rugby Warwickshire School and the extension of St Andrew's Church.

Main shopping area in Rugby Warwickshire is in the streets around the Clock Tower, two of which – High Street and Sheep Street – were pedestrianised in the 1980s.

From 1885 until 1983 Rugby Warwickshire was a constituency in itself, a status it regained in 2010.

Rugby Warwickshire historically has been one of the Midlands' most marginal seats.

From 1885 until 1924 Rugby Warwickshire was a marginal seat which changed hands between the Conservative and Liberal parties.

From 1950 until 1983 Rugby Warwickshire was a Labour-Conservative marginal, with the Labour Party holding it for the majority of that period.

In 1983 Rugby Warwickshire was joined with Kenilworth to become part of the parliamentary constituency of Rugby Warwickshire and Kenilworth.

Rugby Warwickshire is an unparished area and so does not have its own town council.

Borough of Rugby Warwickshire was created in its current form in 1974, with the first elections held in 1973, since then, Rugby Warwickshire Borough Council has spent the majority of its time under no overall control, but since 2018 it has been controlled by the Conservative Party .

Local hospital in Rugby is the Hospital of St Cross which is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Since 2011 Rugby Warwickshire has held the annual Rugby Warwickshire Festival of Culture, which lasts for two or three weeks in June and July, and includes a wide-ranging program of music, theatre, arts and crafts and comedy.

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Rugby Warwickshire has an indoor leisure centre, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre which opened in 2013, replacing the older Ken Marriott Leisure Centre, it is run by GLL a charitable social enterprise on behalf of the local council.

Rugby Warwickshire remains an engineering centre and has a long history of producing gas and steam turbines and electrical equipment.

In 2019 the Rugby Warwickshire site was threatened with closure, but was saved following an order for motors from the Ministry of Defence, after the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, decided that closing the site would lead to a 'loss of sovereign capability and security'.

Rugby Warwickshire is a centre of laser manufacturing: This was started by the local firm JK Lasers, which was founded in 1972.

The current cement works at Rugby Warwickshire has the largest cement kiln in the UK, capable of producing 1.

Rugby Warwickshire Cement was taken over in 2000 and is owned by the Mexican firm Cemex, who moved their UK headquarters to Rugby Warwickshire in 2018.

One of the most notable landmarks around Rugby Warwickshire was, until August 2007, the Rugby Warwickshire Radio Station, a large radio transmitting station just to the east of the town.

The church has other artefacts of medieval Rugby Warwickshire including the 13th-century parish chest, and a medieval font.

Buildings of Rugby Warwickshire School are major landmarks mostly dating from the 18th and 19th century with some early 20th Century additions.

Rugby Warwickshire is situated near to several major trunk routes including the M1, M6 and M45 motorways, and the A5, A14 and A45 roads.

Rugby Warwickshire has had a railway station since 1838, when the London and Birmingham Railway was opened, though the present station dates from 1885.

Rugby Warwickshire station used to be served by lines which have now been closed, including to Leicester, Leamington Spa and Peterborough.

Between 1899 and 1969, Rugby Warwickshire had a second station; Rugby Warwickshire Central station on the former Great Central Main Line, which had services to London Marylebone to the south and Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield to the north.