Rugby (borough) - Definition and Overview

Borough of Rugby
Shown within Warwickshire
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 (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 254th 88,783 251 / 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, 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.

Settlements within the borough of Rugby

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