Overslade is a residential area in the central south part of the town of

Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. In the 2021 census its population was 78,125, making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire. It is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby whi ...

. The area was developed for housing in the 20th century, mostly between the 1930s and late-1950s. It was historically within the

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of Bilton. The local council built a large number of

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s in Overslade in the late-1940s to solve a local housing shortage after

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, which led to the area gaining the nickname of 'tin town', although most of these houses have been refurbished in recent years, with their steel cladding removed or covered. A common misconception exists that these houses were meant to be temporary, however they were in fact designed to have the same lifespan as conventional constructions. The local

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. There are several parks and open spaces in the neighbourhood, the largest being the long, thin, Burnside Open Space, which runs adjacent to the Sow Brook (a tributary of the River Avon} Overslade has a community centre. At the time of the 2001 census, Overslade was a ward of the borough of Rugby, the ward's population in 2001 was 5,606. By 2016, the ward had its boundaries altered to include the adjacent Rokeby area and had been renamed Rokeby and Overslade which had a population of 7,809.

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