Bristol Channel Charters Ltd

Is this REALLY the UK’s BEST Fish and Chips?! | 3 Award Winners COMPARED

We reckon we NAILED the Best Fish & Chips in London so it was time to branch out. We took your suggestions and headed South West(ish) in an attempt to find AMAZING food. Not only did we try all the Fish & Chips but we discovered a lot of gems on the way thanks to you guys!

Check out the membership video for more of that:

If you're not already a member, sign up here to access all our content:

WANT TO SUPPORT SORTED?? Here's how to get involved...

SUBSCRIBE to the channel and press the bell button to get notifications every time we post:

Join the Sorted club for EXCLUSIVE podcasts and video specials:

Grab a copy of our AWESOME cookbook Desserts In Duvets:

Create and account and carry on the conversation with other foodies on our forum:


MASSIVE thank you to Jaded for our intro music, you can check them out here:

VLOG: Rugby England ???????????????????????????? DJI Mavic Pro Platinum Bird View ???? be better

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. The town has a population of 70,628 (2011 census[1]) 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.[2]
Early Iron age settlement existed in the Rugby area, and a few miles outside what is now Rugby, existed a Roman settlement known as Tripontium. Rugby was originally a small Anglo-Saxon farming settlement on the hill overlooking the River Avon and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Rocheberie, a popular theory is that this was a phonetic translation of the Old English name Hrocaberg meaning 'Hroca's hill fortification'; Hroca being an Anglo-Saxon man's name pronounced with a silent 'H', and 'berg' being a name for a hill fortification, with the 'g' being pronounced as an 'ee' sound. By the 13th century the name of the town was commonly spelt as Rokeby before gradually evolving into the modern form.[3] The first mention was made of St Andrew's Church in 1140, and Rugby became a parish in its own right in 1221. Rugby obtained a charter to hold a market in 1255, and soon developed into a small country market town.[4]

Rugby School was founded in 1567 with money left in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, a locally born man, who moved to London and became grocer to Queen Elizabeth I. Rugby School was originally intended as a school for local boys, but by the 18th century it had acquired a national reputation and gradually became a mostly fee-paying private school, with most of its pupils coming from outside Rugby. The Lawrence Sheriff School was eventually founded in 1878 to carry on Sheriff's original intentions.[5][4]

The growth of Rugby was slow, due in part to the nearby markets at Dunchurch and Hillmorton which were better positioned in terms of road traffic. In 1663 Rugby contained only 160 houses. By 1730 this had increased to 183 houses, with a population of around 900. Rugby's importance and population increased more rapidly during the late 18th and early 19th century due to the growing national reputation of Rugby School. By the time of the first national census in 1801, Rugby had a population of 1,487 with 278 houses. By 1831 this had increased further to 2,501 in 415 houses. This growth was driven by parents who wished to send their boys to Rugby School, but were unable to afford the boarding fees and so took up residence in Rugby.[6][7][3]

More rapid growth started with the coming of the railways: In 1838 one of the earliest inter-city railway lines, the London and Birmingham Railway was constructed around the town, which in 1840 made a junction with the Midland Counties Railway at Rugby. By 1850 there were five railway lines meeting at Rugby, with more than sixty trains a day passing through Rugby railway station.[6] The railway junction at Rugby soon became one of the busiest and most important of the era, and the proliferation of rail yards and workshops attracted workers.[4] Rugby's population grew to nearly 8,000 by 1861.[7] reaching nearly 17,000 by 1901.[8]

In the later half of the 19th century, Rugby also developed some industries: Large-scale cement production began in the town in the 1860s when the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd was founded to take advantage of the locally available deposits of Blue Lias limestone.[9][3] In the 1890s and 1900s heavy engineering industries began to set up in the town, and Rugby rapidly grew into a major industrial centre: Willans and Robinson were the first engineering firm to arrive in Rugby in 1897,[10] building steam engines to drive electrical generators, they were followed by British Thomson-Houston in 1902, who manufactured electrical motors and generators. Both firms started producing turbines in 1904, and were in competition until both were united as part of GEC in 1969.[11] Rugby expanded rapidly in the early decades of the 20th century as workers moved in. By the 1940s, the population of Rugby had grown to over 40,000, and then to over 50,000 by the 1960s.[8]

A local board of health was established in Rugby in 1849, to provide the town with the amenities necessary to cope with its growth, this was converted into an urban district council in 1894. 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, Hillmorton, Brownsover and Newbold-on-Avon which have become suburbs of the town.[7][12] In 1974 the municipal borough was merged with