The Rugby Rural District was a former rural district in Warwickshire, England. The district covered the rural areas surrounding the town of Rugby, where the district council was based, but did not include Rugby itself which was administered separately.
The district was created in 1894. In 1932 its boundaries were significantly altered. The district was expanded to include the whole of the abolished Monks Kirby Rural District, parts of the abolished Foleshill Rural District and parts of the abolished Nuneaton Rural District. It also briefly included Bulkington, but in 1938 this merged with the Bedworth Urban District. At the same time it lost some territory as Rugby's town boundaries were expanded.
In 1953, the rural district was the second largest local authority area in Warwickshire, covering 125m2, 80,000 acres (approximately the size of the Isle of Wight). The population of the Rural District in mid-1952 was reported as 21,220, living in around 5,000 houses.
On 1 April 1974 the district was abolished and merged with the Rugby municipal borough (which covered the town of Rugby) to form the present Borough of Rugby.
Parishes
At the time of its abolition in 1974 Rugby RD consisted of the following civil parishes:
Ansty
Binley Woods
Birdingbury
Bourton and Draycote
Brandon and Bretford
Brinklow
Burton Hastings
Church Lawford
Churchover
Clifton upon Dunsmore
Combe Fields
Copston Magna
Cosford
Dunchurch
Easenhall
Frankton
Grandborough
Harborough Magna
King's Newnham (Newnham Regis) Leamington Hastings Little Lawford Long Lawford Marton Monks Kirby Newton and Biggin Pailton Princethorpe Ryton on Dunsmore Shilton Stretton Baskerville Stretton-on-Dunsmore Stretton-under-Fosse Thurlaston Wibtoft Willey Willoughby Withybrook Wolfhampcote Wolston Wolvey