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There are currently 44 clubs affiliated with the union, with teams at both senior and junior level and are based in Warwickshire.The vast majority of the county's clubs compete in the Rugby Football Union Midland Division, with the exception of Coventry RFC (The English Championship) and the University Teams (who compete in the British Universities and Colleges Sport rugby competitions).
Counties 1 Midlands West (South) (formerly Midlands 2 West (South)) is a level seven English rugby union league and level three of the Midlands League, made up of teams from the southern part of the West Midlands region including Herefordshire, parts of Birmingham and the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, with home and away matches played throughout the season.
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Rugby was transformed into a railway town, and the influx of railway workers and their families rapidly expanded the population. [6] Rugby's population grew to nearly 8,000 by 1861. [14] reaching nearly 17,000 by 1901. By which time around 1 in 5 Rugbeians were employed by the railways. [15] [5] Map of Rugby from 1946
Warwickian RUFC is a new rugby club established in 2004. It was formed by folding the two former clubs, Old Warwickian RFC and Warwick RFC, to produce one club for the playing and development of rugby in the town of Warwick and its environs. [1] Old Warwickian RUFC was formed in 1929 by the old boys of Warwick School, the Old Warwickian ...
The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including a Gilbert football of the kind used at Rugby School that was exhibited at the first World's Fair, [3] [4] [5] at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the rubber bladder for rugby balls) brass hand pump. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still ...
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.
Old Quad Buildings at Rugby School: Rugby: Wall: 1748: 11 October 1949: 1035021: Upload Photo: School House at Rugby School: Rugby: Teachers House: 1809-13: 11 October 1949: 1183930: Upload Photo