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in the county of Warwickshire

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About Rugby

This town is the home of Rugby public school, the place where William Webb Ellis carried the ball instead of kicking it, and thus, in 1823 the game of Rugby football was born, it is a game that has been played with relish ever since, most recently bringing glory to the English Rugby football side. A plaque on a wall beside Rugby school celebrates the exploits of William Webb Ellis.

Rugby is a pleasant town, it has narrow streets, open squares and a market. The town centre offers a mixture of modern and historic with the newer buildings of the library and town hall sitting comfortably amongst streets with modern shop fronts beneath upper storey's revealing buildings from the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Of interest is Elborow's Almshouses, Rugby School Close, the town's churches, the Rupert Brooke statue and the clock tower in the market place. There are fine Victorian houses in tree lined Regent Place, pleasant parks and some nice inns.

The town is ringed by lovely old villages, and is crossed by a meandering canal once used for the shipment of coal and other commodities, but now mainly used for pleasure boating. This offers visitors walks along pleasing tow paths, where it is pleasant to view gaily painted river traffic and enjoy canal wildlife.

The town is well worth seeing, it is ideal for a weekend or for a longer stay to explore the many hidden treasures of Warwickshire.

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Recommended attractions near Rugby

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Daventry Country Park	(8.4 miles, 13.6 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Caludon Castle	(8.5 miles, 13.7 km, direction W)	Pictures
Coton Manor Wildlife Garden	(9.4 miles, 15.2 km, direction E)	Pictures
Wyken Slough Nature Reserve	(10.3 miles, 16.5 km, direction NW)	Pictures
Coventry Transport Museum	(10.7 miles, 17.2 km, direction W)	Pictures
Coventry Cathedral	(10.9 miles, 17.5 km, direction W)	Pictures
Althorp	(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction SE)	Pictures
Kenilworth Castle	(14.1 miles, 22.6 km, direction W)	Pictures
Lord Leycester Hospital	(14.5 miles, 23.4 km, direction SW)	Pictures
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St Nicholas Park	(14.8 miles, 23.9 km, direction SW)	Pictures

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Recommended towns near Rugby

Dunchurch, in the county of Warwickshire (2.5 miles, 4.1 km, direction SW)
Dunchurch is located south of Rugby and just a short distance from the pleasures of the Oxford Canal. It was once famous as a stopping point for the coach travellers of the 18th century.
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Stanford on Avon, in the county of Northamptonshire (6.0 miles, 9.7 km, direction NE)
Picturesque village straddling the banks of the River Avon.
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Ryton-on-Dunsmore, in the county of Warwickshire (7.3 miles, 11.7 km, direction W)
Located in the countryside between Rugby and Coventry, this delightful village is probably best known for it's ancient parish church.
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Badby, in the county of Northamptonshire (10.7 miles, 17.2 km, direction S)
Badby is an attractive village spread around a hillside. It shows a confection of pretty cottages, some of which are thickly thatched with creeper climbing up to pretty dormer windows.
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Guilsborough, in the county of Northamptonshire (10.8 miles, 17.3 km, direction E)
Hidden amongst leafy lanes and glorious poppy fields of the undulating Northamptonshire countryside, lies the peaceful village of Guilsborough.
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Coventry, in the county of West Midlands (11.1 miles, 17.8 km, direction W)
Coventry has been at the heart of industry for many decades and has a great industrial past.
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Everdon, in the county of Northamptonshire (12.3 miles, 19.9 km, direction SE)
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Royal Leamington Spa, in the county of Warwickshire (12.7 miles, 20.5 km, direction SW)
This town has a history stretching back to the Doomsday Book, but it was Queen Victoria who put the "Royal" into Leamington Spa when she bestowed the title in 1838.
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Nuneaton, in the county of Warwickshire (13.4 miles, 21.5 km, direction NW)
It was the arrival of the railways in 1847 that caused Nuneaton to develop as an industrial textile and engineering town.
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Kenilworth, in the county of Warwickshire (13.4 miles, 21.6 km, direction W)
Kenilworth is a pleasant town located in the spacious Warwickshire countryside, it is a town with an 'air of gentility' that tells you that this is a prosperous place with a long, illustrious history.
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Earl Shilton, in the county of Leicestershire (14.2 miles, 22.8 km, direction N)
Earl Shilton is one of the largest villages in the County of Leicestershire. It occupies a rich rural landscape between the town of Hinckley and the City of Leicester.
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Warwick, in the county of Warwickshire (14.9 miles, 24.0 km, direction SW)
Warwick offers its visitors the chance to explore England's fascinating history with fine medieval buildings and a truly magnificent castle.
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Foxton, a Picturesque Village in the county of Leicestershire (15.6 miles, 25.0 km, direction NE)
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Lamport, in the county of Northamptonshire (15.9 miles, 25.6 km, direction E)
Tranquil Northamptonshire village set in fine countryside. Noted for splendid Lamport Hall built in the 17th-century and home of the Isham family for over 400 years.
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Burton Dassett, in the county of Warwickshire (16.0 miles, 25.8 km, direction SW)
Delightful place in pleasant Warwickshire countryside.
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Nearby travel help

Rugby Station	(0.9 miles, 1.5 km)
M6 Junction 1	(2.7 miles, 4.3 km, direction N)
M45 Junction 1	(3.2 miles, 5.1 km, direction SW)
Long Buckby Station	(9.2 miles, 14.8 km, direction SE)
Birmingham International Airport	(20.8 miles, 33.4 km, direction W)
East Midlands Airport	(31.9 miles, 51.3 km, direction N)
Rugby to London	(76.9 miles, 123.8 km, direction SE)

Hotels & Accommodation in Rugby

Hotel Name	Approximate distance from Rugby center
Three Horseshoes Hotel	(0.1 miles, 0.1 km)
Diamond House Hotel	(0.4 miles, 0.6 km)
Grosvenor Hotel	(0.6 miles, 0.9 km)
Brownsover Hall Hotel (Form. Corus Hotel Rugby)	(1.7 miles, 2.7 km, direction N)
Dunchurch Park	(2.4 miles, 3.9 km, direction S)
Village Green Hotel	(2.6 miles, 4.2 km, direction SW)
Draycote Hotel And Whitefields Golf Course	(3.4 miles, 5.5 km, direction SW)
Golden Lion Hotel	(3.7 miles, 5.9 km, direction NW)
Mercure Brandon Hall Coventry	(6.0 miles, 9.7 km, direction W)
Coombe Abbey Hotel	(6.7 miles, 10.8 km, direction NW)
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