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Rugby is a local government districtThe Districts of England are the lowest level of local government in England except for civil parishes. England is first divided into governmental regions, then administrative counties. Counties are then subdivided into districts. Status Most districts ca with boroughA borough is a political division originally used in England. The equivalent, burgh was used in Scotland. Bury often ends towns' names in the South of England, but borough more often in the Midlands. Bury is more common in America's New England — but burg status in eastern Warwickshire, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England. It comprises the town of Rugby (the administrative headquarters) and the surrounding countryside.

Other places in the borough include:

• Binley Woods ,
• Birdingbury
• BrinklowBrinklow is a village and parish in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, some half way between Rugby and Coventry. Brinklow sits astride the former Roman Fosse Way and is most notable for the remains of a large Norman motte-and-bailey castle alongside the,
• Dunchurch,
• Monks Kirby,
• Pailton
• Ryton-on-Dunsmore,
• Wolston .

The town of Rugby was given borough status in 1932, and had the status of an urban district. The present borough was formed on April 1 1974 when the Rugby urban district was merged with several surrounding rural districts.