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Rugby is a
local government district with
borough status in eastern
Warwickshire,
England.
The borough comprises the town of
Rugby where the council has its headquarters, and the rural areas surrounding the town.
The borough has a population of just over 91,000. Of these, over 60,000 live in the town of Rugby, with the remainder living in the rural areas surrounding the town.
The borough stretches from
Coventry to the west, to the borders with
Northamptonshire and
Leicestershire to the east. It borders the Warwickshire
districts of
Warwick to the south-west,
Stratford to the south, and
Nuneaton and Bedworth to the north-west.
History
The present borough was created on
1 April 1974 by the
Local Government Act 1972. It was created by a merger of the
municipal borough of Rugby (which covered the town of Rugby) and the
Rugby Rural District.
The town of Rugby had gained the status of an
urban district in
1894 [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp;jsessionid=E23CCC271601732AAC9B20DF4AA61813?u_id=10002485
. At the same time the Rugby Rural District was created covering the surrounding countryside. The town and rural district had separate councils, both based in Rugby.
In
1932 Rugby's status was upgraded to that of a
municipal borough, and its boundaries expanded to include most of
Bilton,
Brownsover,
Hillmorton and
Newbold-on-Avon.
Rugby Borough Council
The headquarters of Rugby Borough Council are based at Rugby Town Hall on Evreux Way in the town centre. The last elections to the council were held in May 2007 (see
Rugby local elections).
At the most recent election the
Conservatives won control of the council with 27 seats, followed by
Labour (11), and the
Liberal Democrats (10).
One third of council seats are elected every year, with one year without an election. The political makeup of the council in the past few elections has been:
| Year |
Labour |
Conservatives |
Liberal Democrats |
Oth |
| 2007 |
11 |
27 |
10 |
0 |
| 2006 |
13 |
24 |
10 |
1 |
| 2004 |
14 |
21 |
10 |
3 |
| 2003 |
16 |
18 |
10 |
4 |
| 2002 |
16 |
18 |
10 |
4 |
| 2000 |
18 |
14 |
9 |
7 |
| 1999 |
22 |
11 |
7 |
8 |
Sub-divisions
The borough is divided into 20
wards, with 48
councillors. For a list of
wards in Rugby borough by population see
here
The borough of Rugby has 39
civil parishes, some of which contain several settlements. Rugby town is unparished and so doesn't have a separate
town council.
Places in the borough include:
- Ansty,
- Barnacle, Binley Woods, Birdingbury, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Brandon, Bretford, Brinklow, Broadwell, Burton Hastings
- Church Lawford, Churchover, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Coombe Fields, Copston Magna, Cosford
- Dunchurch, Draycote
- Easenhall
- Frankton, Flecknoe
- Grandborough
- Harborough Magna, Hill
- King's Newnham, Kites Hardwick
- Leamington Hastings, Little Lawford, Long Lawford
- Marton, Monks Kirby,
- Newnham Regis, Newton
- Pailton, Princethorpe
- Rugby, Ryton-on-Dunsmore
- Sawbridge, Shilton, Stretton Baskerville, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stretton-under-Fosse
- Thurlaston
- Wibtoft, Willey, Willoughby, Withybrook, Wolfhampcote, Wolston, Wolvey.
Roman settlement Tripontium
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