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Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. At the 2021 census , its population was 78,117, [ 1 ] making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire. It is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby , which had a population of 114,400 in 2021.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
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.
The first rugby union match between England and France was held on 22 March 1906 at Parc des Princes in Paris. The traditional name for the annual England versus France rugby union match in the Six Nations Championship as used on both sides of the English Channel is Le Crunch , used since at least 1981 (although it has been named " Eurostar ...
Hillmorton is a suburb of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, around 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Rugby town centre, forming much of the eastern half of the town. It is also a ward of the Borough of Rugby. Hillmorton was historically a village in its own right, but was incorporated into Rugby in 1932.
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