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Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. The town has a population of 70,628 (2011 census) making it the second largest town in the county. The town is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby which has a population of 100,500 (2011 census).
Rugby is on the eastern edge of Warwickshire, near the borders of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. It is 83 miles (134 km) north of London, 30 miles (48 km) east of Birmingham and 11 miles (18 km) east of Coventry.
Rugby School, an independent school situated in the town, is the birthplace of Rugby football. In 1845, three Rugby School pupils produced the first written rules of the "Rugby style of game".
Before 1850 the Rugby Post Office was on the High Street before moving that year to the North corner of Chapel Street.
By 1859 as the town grew, alterations to the buildings by the north corner of Market Place and Chapel Street; left the Post Office on the corner of Chapel Street.
In February 1901 a new town Post office opened in Albert Square this was found to be too small so the former Benfield House in North Street was purchased by the Post Office and the building demolished to make way for a new purpose built Head Post Office. Both the Head office in North Street and the Railway Sorting Office were amalgamated at this time into the new building at North Street.
By 1967 a reversal for the Sorting Office occured and it moved to the North side of the railway station on Mill Road where it remains today.
In 1973 Rugby got its own postcodes.
In 1983 the Head Post Office also had a reversal and it went back to the premises it occupied in 1901 on Albert (Square) Street.
The following offices were sub-offices of Rugby Town.
The first railway station to be built in Rugby was a wooden temporary structure located around half a mile to the west of the present station. It opened on 9 April 1838 when the London and Birmingham Railway was constructed.
The first station lasted only a few years. When a junction was made with the Midland Counties Railway in 1840, a new station was built at the site of the junction, which opened on 4 July 1840; it was 990 yards (905 m) to the east of the original station, and 150 yards to the west of the present station. A new road, Railway Terrace had to be built to link it to the town centre, because at the time it was located in open countryside.
The second station lasted until the 1880s, when a new line from Rugby to Northampton (the Northampton loop) was built, the old station was deemed by the LNWR to be no-longer satisfactory, and in 1882, £70,000 was allocated to replace it with the current station which opened on 5 July 1885.
In 1886 a new town sorting office was opened next to Rugby L. & N.W. Station and was handling the sorting of mail on and off the trains and into the Rugby area by 1905.
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