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The Market Place in Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, standing on the River Avon, thirteen miles east of Coventry, on the eastern edge of Warwickshire, near the borders with Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. The town had a recorded population of 61,988 in 2001. The town is most famous as the birthplace of rugby football, which came from the famous public school here. Rugby School is one of Britain's oldest and most prestigious public schools, and was the setting of Thomas Hughes's semi-autobiographical masterpiece Tom Brown's Schooldays. (Read more)