RUGBY DISTRICT

Rugby is located at the cross-roads of England

Dunchurch

Rugby can be traced back to an early Anglo-Saxon settlement. Mention of the town can be found in the Domesday Book of 1068, when it was known as Rocherbie – roche meaning stone and berie an important place. It was not until the 18th Century that Rugby took its present name.

Transport brought growth to the area – firstly from the Roman Watling Street, later from the 18th Century Oxford Canal and, most significantly, from the coming of the railway. Rugby today is a modern and vibrant market town but reminders of its past can be seen in its beautiful buildings, parks, roads, canals – and even in its once grandiose railway station.

Rugby has been the home of a long line of poets including Rupert Brooke, Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough (‘Thou shalt not kill but should not strive officiously to keep alive’), Walter Savage Landor, and Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland.

Rupert Brooke, born in 1887. His father was a housemaster at Rugby School, which Brooke also attended and where he began to write verse. Today, his statue can be seen in Jubilee Gardens.

Rugby Clock Tower

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