Removals in Rugby

Britannia Pink & Jones offers a range of removal and storage services in Rugby and surrounding areas, for home moves and business relocations.

As a family-owned removal company, established over 120 years ago, we pride ourselves on our expertise and knowledge to provide a professional removal service tailored to your needs.

As well as removals services we offer a range of optional services such as packing and flexible storage options, if required. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will offer help and guidance throughout, to ensure a stress-free move.

For a removal quote or to find out more please contact us on 01536 381924 or email [email protected].

Removals Services in Rugby

As we have an extensive knowledge of Rugby and surrounding areas, this enables us to plan your move with efficiency, safety and reliability at its core. We carefully navigate the challenges that moving brings, such as roadworks, access points and property types, to make moving day stress-free.

Before your move, we will carry out a move survey to assess your specific requirements, so that we can provide a detailed quote and helps us determine what resources are required.

If you are relocating beyond Rugby, we can help move you nationwide or even overseas. Our team can handle the packing and the transportation of your items, as well as customs paperwork, making it easy for you to focus on all other aspects of your relocation.

For business owners, our commercial removals provide an expedited move from one site to another. We’ll carefully manage the process, ensuring furniture, equipment, and essential paperwork are all safely moved to align with your business needs.

Want to know more about our removals in Rugby? Contact us today to ask any questions or get your free no obligation quote.

Moving to Rugby

Rugby is a historic market town in Warwickshire, and has transformed over the years with the addition of the restaurants, nightclubs, and bars that have come with development.

Many move to Rugby to benefit from the excellent transport links; commuters benefitting from a speedy service to London.

The notable and popular areas in Rugby to move to include:

Bilton – one of Rugby’s most established residential areas, sits to the west of the town centre and is consistently in demand. The properties consist mainly of semi-detached and larger detached period properties on the quieter streets. Bilton is particularly well suited to families as it is served by several well-regarded primary schools and has a village-like feel despite being within easy reach of Rugby town centre.
Hillmorton – situated south-east of the centre of Rugby is popular with families and established professionals looking for a quieter setting. The area has a mix of 1930s semi-detached and newer builds, with good transport links. The canal running through Hillmorton adds a pleasant green corridor for walkers and cyclists.
Boughton Vale – a quieter residential area in the south of Rugby, is popular with families and those looking to upsize. It benefits from good primary schooling options and a more spacious, suburban feel. Properties tend to be larger than average for the area, with a mix of detached and semi-detached homes.
Houlton – a large-scale new development on the eastern edge of Rugby, with modern infrastructure, it appeals to first-time buyers and young families who want new-build certainty, low maintenance, energy-efficient homes, and a growing community with schools and amenities planned in. Properties range from starter homes through to four and five-bedroom family houses.
New Bilton and Brownsover – popular with first time buyers and young families, with more competitively priced and affordable properties, and is also the main rental hotspot.
Villages such as Dunchurch and Cawston also popular and sought after by families and professionals, offering more green space and quieter living.

Rugby is best known for the boy’s public school, which is where the game of rugby was created in 1823. The Rugby Football Museum is opposite the school and the local rugby football manufacturers, Gilberts, are still going strong in the town.

What is Rugby like to live in?

Rugby is good value, compared to large nearby cities such as Coventry and Leicester, and has a mix of independent and chain retail shops, plenty of green spaces with employment opportunities from DRIFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) and distribution centres for Sainsburys and Tesco.

Things to do in Rugby

There are plenty of activities to entertain everyone in Rugby from sport to museums and country parks, with a growing independent food scene. The town centre has been gradually improving its independent food and drink offering, and the surrounding villages, particularly Dunchurch, have the sought after traditional pub culture that’s hard to find closer to a city. The café quarter around the Clock Tower areas is especially popular.

The famous Rugby school and museum are a must visit, even for those with with only a passing interest in sport, where William Webb Ellis supposedly picked up the ball in 1823. Also recommended for a visit is the Rugby Art Gallery and Museum offers free entry and a well-curated look at local history.

Beyond the heritage, Caldecott Park provides a green spaces at the heart of the town, and less than 20 minutes away Draycote Water and Coombe Country Park and provide easy weekend options for families.

Schools in Rugby

There are some great primary schools in Rugby, including Eastland Primary School, Hillmorton and Riverside Academy all rated outstanding, with Bawnmore CofE, Bilton CofE and Boughton Leigh rated Good. Lawrence Sheriff School is another outstanding Academy with an age range of 11 to 18. Avon Park School is also considered outstanding as a special independent school for ages 6-16.

Most prestigious in Rugby is Rugby School, an exclusive co-educational day and boarding school. It is one of the oldest private schools in Britain, founded in 1567.

Rugby Transport Links

Surrounded by the M45, M1, and M6 – Rugby is well connected by road. Coventry is a 20-minute drive away, Northampton is 35 minutes, and Birmingham is 40 minutes’ drive in good traffic.

Rugby train station has six platforms and over ten trains run every hour, even during off-peak hours. West Midlands and Avanti West Coast provide services to Birmingham New Street (36 minutes), Coventry (11 minutes), London Euston (52 minutes), Crewe (46 minutes), Stafford (53 minutes), and Stoke-on-Trent (1 hour 20 minutes).

Virgin also run two trains per hour, one to London Euston and one to Birmingham New Street via Coventry.

If you are planning a local, long distance or international move in Rugby please call 01536 381924 or email [email protected] for a free, no-obligation quote, or to find out more about our removals and storage services.