Rugby

Rugby is a market town of 78,000 people in the Borough of Rugby in , in the West Midlands region of , part of the . The town is credited with being the birthplace of rugby football, and is a must visit for the avid rugby fan.
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  • Type: Town with 70,600 residents
  • Description: market town in Warwickshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rugby railway station and Rugby School.

Railway station
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serves the market town of Rugby in , England. The current station dates from 1885; two previous stations dating from 1838 and 1840 respectively, existed at locations to the west of the current one.

School
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is a private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.

Museum
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The is a combined art gallery and in central Rugby, Warwickshire, in England. The purpose-built building housing it is shared with Rugby ; it was opened in 2000 and was built in the place of Rugby's previous library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bilton and Newbold-on-Avon.

Village
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is a suburb of Rugby in , England, located about 1.5 miles south-west of Rugby town centre. It is also a ward of the Borough of Rugby, which at the 2021 Census had a population of 6,544.

Village
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is a suburban village of Rugby in , England, located around 1½ miles north-west of the town centre, it is adjacent to the from which the suffix is derived.

Suburb
is a suburb of Rugby, , England, around 2 miles 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. is situated 2 miles east of Rugby.

Rugby

Latitude
52.3727° or 52° 22′ 22″ north
Longitude
-1.262° or 1° 15′ 43″ west
Population
70,600
Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)
IATA airport code
XRU
United Nations Location Code
GB RUG
Open location code
9C4W9PFQ+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 348415368
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638978
Wiki­data ID
Q623765
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Rugby” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Afrikaans: “Rugby”
  • Arabic: “راجبي”
  • Arabic: “رغبي (وركشير)”
  • Arabic: “رغبي”
  • Asturian: “Rugby”
  • Basque: “Rugby (Warwickshire)”
  • Basque: “Rugby”
  • Belarusian: “Рагбі”
  • Bengali: “রাগবি”
  • Breton: “Rugby”
  • Bulgarian: “Ръгби”
  • Catalan: “Rugby”
  • Cebuano: “Rugby”
  • Chinese: “拉格比”
  • Czech: “Rugby”
  • Danish: “Rugby”
  • Dutch: “Rugby”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رجبى”
  • Esperanto: “Rugby”
  • Finnish: “Rugby (Warwickshire)”
  • Finnish: “Rugby”
  • French: “Rugby”
  • French: “Ville de Rugby”
  • Galician: “Rugby”
  • German: “Rugby”
  • Greek: “Ράγκμπι”
  • Gujarati: “રગ્બી”
  • Hebrew: “רגבי”
  • Hungarian: “Rugby”
  • Indonesian: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Indonesian: “Rugby”
  • Irish: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Irish: “Rugby”
  • Italian: “Rugby”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー (イギリス)”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー (ウォリックシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー (タウン)”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー (地名)”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー (都市)”
  • Japanese: “ラグビー”
  • Kannada: “ರಗ್ಬಿ”
  • Korean: “럭비”
  • Ladin: “Rugby”
  • Latvian: “Ragbi”
  • Latvian: “Regbija”
  • Lithuanian: “Regbis”
  • Lombard: “Rugby”
  • Macedonian: “Рагби”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rugby”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rugby i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rugby i Warwickshire”
  • Norwegian: “Rugby”
  • Persian: “راگبی، وارویک‌شایر”
  • Persian: “راگبی، واریک‌شایر”
  • Piemontese: “Rugby”
  • Polish: “Rugby”
  • Portuguese: “Rugby”
  • Romanian: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Romanian: “Rugby”
  • Russian: “Рагби”
  • Russian: “Регби”
  • Scots: “Rugby”
  • Serbian: “Ragbi”
  • Serbian: “Rugby”
  • Serbian: “Рагби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ragbi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rugby”
  • Slovak: “Rugby”
  • Slovenian: “Rugby”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راقبی، واریک‌شایر”
  • Spanish: “Rugby”
  • Swedish: “Rugby, Storbritannien”
  • Swedish: “Rugby”
  • Tamil: “ரக்பி”
  • Tatar: “Рагби”
  • Telugu: “, రగ్బీ”
  • Thai: “รักบี”
  • Thai: “รักบี้”
  • Turkish: “Rugby, Warwickshire”
  • Turkish: “Rugby”
  • Ukrainian: “Рагбі”
  • Urdu: “رگبی، وارکشائر”
  • Urdu: “روجبی”
  • Volapük: “Rugby”
  • Welsh: “Rugby, Swydd Warwick”
  • Welsh: “Rugby”
  • Welsh: “Rygbi”

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