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Rugby is a market town on the River Avon in Warwickshire, population 62,790.
Rugby is most famous for the invention of Rugby football, which is played throughout the world. Legend has it that the game was invented by William Webb Ellis in 1823 at Rugby School, one of England's oldest public schools and the setting of Tom Brown's Schooldays.
In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once hugely important railway junction.
Rugby is also a birthplace of the jet engine. In April 1937 Frank Whittle built the world's first prototype jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston works in Rugby, and between 1936-41 based himself at Brownsover Hall on the outskirts of the town, where he designed and developed early prototype engines.
Rugby is most famous for the invention of Rugby football, which is played throughout the world. Legend has it that the game was invented by William Webb Ellis in 1823 at Rugby School, one of England's oldest public schools and the setting of Tom Brown's Schooldays.
In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once hugely important railway junction.
Rugby is also a birthplace of the jet engine. In April 1937 Frank Whittle built the world's first prototype jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston works in Rugby, and between 1936-41 based himself at Brownsover Hall on the outskirts of the town, where he designed and developed early prototype engines.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby,_Warwickshire
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Coordinates: 52°21'45"N 1°15'34"W
- Northampton 22 km
- Solihull 43 km
- Oxford 64 km
- Luton 71 km
- Gloucester 88 km
- Swindon 93 km
- Slough 100 km
- Basingstoke 118 km
- Bristol 134 km
- Bournemouth 182 km
- Rugby School 0.6 km
- Springhill 0.9 km
- Bilton 1.8 km
- Rugby Cement Works 2.3 km
- Rugby Golf Club 2.3 km
- Hillmorton 2.5 km
- Draycote Water 6 km
- Woolscott 6.3 km
- Sawbridge 8.4 km
- Warwickshire 21 km
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