The Rugby Central Shopping Centre is a two storey shopping precinct in the town centre 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 ...

, England, managed by CBGA Robson LLP. The precinct includes clothes stores, game shops, thrift stores and food outlets. There is a large multi-storey

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at the rear and the towns main bus stops are at the front of the centre. The centre is visited by 100,000 people per week, and has more than 50 outlets. The precinct, originally opened in 1979, as "Rugby Shopping Centre", changed its name in 1995 to "Clock Towers Shopping Centre" after the

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in the town centre, and adapted its name as a theme; the shopping centre features clocks and other time-related decorations, the precinct installed two ornamental clocks, both loosely based on the traditional grandfather clock design. The first, named ''Chiming Clock'', was designed to chime and play music on the hour and half-hour as a tortoise and hare raced around the dials, reenacting

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. It took on its current name in October 2017.

References

External links

Official website
{{Shopping centres in West Midlands Clock Towers, The Buildings and structures in Rugby, Warwickshire

Clock towers Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...

Clock towers in the United Kingdom 1979 establishments in England