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Rugby and its surrounding area had several brushes with some of the most important events in English history. "Guy Fawkes House" in Dunchurch. The Rugby area has associations with the Gunpowder Plot – On the eve of the plot on 5 November 1605, the plotters stayed at an inn in nearby Dunchurch to await news of the plot.
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Warwickshire in the West Midlands. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
The constituency was defined as consisting of the Urban District of Rugby, the Rural Districts of Farnborough, Monks Kirby, Rugby and Southam, together with the majority of Brailes Rural district (excepting only the two parishes of Ilmington and Stretton-on-Fosse which were in a detached part of Warwickshire).
Rugby Borough Council elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Rugby Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Rugby in Warwickshire , England .
British Railways' locomotive testing centre was located in Rugby. [103] Warwickshire County Council have proposed a new station in the area; Rugby Parkway station is to be sited on the Northampton Loop Line, south-east of the existing station; it will serve the Hillmorton area of the town and the new development at Houlton.
After civic leaders found that "The Lawn" was inadequate for their needs, they elected to construct a purpose-built facility. In December 1937 the borough council approved the design of a new town hall, made by Ernest Prestwich of J.C. Prestwich & Sons, [8] at an estimated cost of £90,478 (equivalent to £7,374,389.58 in 2023), in spite of objections as to cost. [9]
Progressive candidates won a majority on London County Council, although at this point party labels were relatively unimportant, with municipal and county politics in Victorian Britain being somewhat detached from national politics, and national political divisions. [1]
Pailton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Its population in 2001 was recorded as 482, increasing at the 2011 Census to 516, reducing again to 483 in the 2021 Census. [1] The village was originally known as Pailington. [2]