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===Civic history=== The parish of Rugby was made a [[local board of health|local board district]] in 1849, which was the town's first modern form of local government; previously it had been governed by its [[vestry]] and [[manorial court]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21020|page=2853|date=18 September 1849}}</ref> The local board's main responsibilities were to provide the town with infrastructure such as paved roads, street lighting, clean drinking water and sewerage. Such districts were converted into [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban districts]] in 1894.<ref>[[Local Government Act 1894]]</ref> Rugby's status was upgraded to that of a [[municipal borough]] in 1932, and its boundaries were expanded to incorporate the formerly separate villages of [[Bilton, Warwickshire|Bilton]] (including [[New Bilton]]), [[Hillmorton]], [[Brownsover]] and [[Newbold-on-Avon]] which have become suburbs of the town.<ref name="BHOL">{{cite web|title=THE BOROUGH OF RUGBY|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp202-210|publisher=British History Online|access-date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308042739/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp202-210|archive-date=8 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="visionofbritain.org">[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp;jsessionid=E23CCC271601732AAC9B20DF4AA61813?u_id=10002485 visionofbritain.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930210612/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp;jsessionid=E23CCC271601732AAC9B20DF4AA61813?u_id=10002485 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref> In 1974 the municipal borough was merged with the [[Rugby Rural District]] to form the present [[Borough of Rugby]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline History of Rugby|url=http://www.visitoruk.com/Rugby/20th-century-T1535.html|publisher=VisitorUK|access-date=4 May 2018}}</ref>
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