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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.
Rugby is an unparished area and so does not have its own town council. The Borough of Rugby was created in its current form in 1974, with the first elections held in 1973, since then, Rugby Borough Council has spent the majority of its time under no overall control, alternating with periods of Conservative control.
The Rugby Rural District was a former rural district in Warwickshire, England. The district covered the rural areas surrounding the town of Rugby, where the district council was based, but did not include Rugby itself which was administered separately. The district was created in 1894. In 1932 its boundaries were significantly altered.
The Borough of Rugby is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, England. The borough comprises the town of Rugby where the council has its headquarters, and the rural areas surrounding the town. At the 2021 census the borough had a population of 114,400, of which 78,125 lived in the built-up area of Rugby itself and the ...
Warwickshire: 1894 1932 absorbed by Southam RD: Foleshill RD: Warwickshire: 1894 1932 absorbed by Bedworth UD, Coventry CB, Meriden RD, Rugby RD and Warwick RD: Meriden RD: Warwickshire: 1894 1974 Solihull, North Warwickshire, Coventry: Monks Kirby RD: Warwickshire: 1894 1932 absorbed by Rugby RD: Nuneaton RD: Warwickshire: 1894 1932
Warwickshire: 1903 Aston Manor MB: Bulkington UD: Warwickshire: 1932 absorbed by Rugby RD: Erdington UD: Warwickshire: 1911 absorbed by Birmingham CB: Nuneaton and Chilvers Cotton UD: Warwickshire: 1907 Nuneaton MB: Rugby UD: Warwickshire: 1932 Rugby MB: Altofts UD: West Riding of Yorkshire: 1938 absorbed by Normanton UD: Ardsley UD: West ...
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
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to the number of constituencies in Warwickshire from 5 to 6 for the 2010 election, with the creation of the new constituency of Kenilworth and Southam, combining the two towns of Kenilworth, transferred from Rugby and Kenilworth (renamed Rugby), and Southam, transferred from Stratford-on ...