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Events, Hiking, Performances, Teas & Talks on the scenic Cumberland Plateau

Events, Hiking, Performances, Teas & Talks on the scenic Cumberland Plateau

Historic Rugby hosts a series of hikes, outdoor events, performances, teas, galas, lectures and other events. Find your niche of interest below! Our schedule (all times Eastern) is below but subject to updates, so check back often.

Green house with white picket fence.
  • Webb Space Telescope Program

    Join a National Park Service ranger for some of the first images released from the highly advanced Webb Space Telescope.  The telescope was launched last December after scientists had dedicated…

  • British Car Show & Tea Table Setting Contest

    On Saturday, show day, there are cars to see and talk about, a silent auction and vendors’ goods to peruse. During that lull between the end of judging and the…

  • Irish Road Bowling

    Irish Road Bowling

                Join in this fun game of Irish Road Bowling or just watch as players divide up into teams and roll and iron ball down…

  • Grill Rugby

    Grill Rugby

    Unique Cooking Demonstration and Al Fresco Dinner on the Lawn, Silent Auction, Specialty Cocktail, Labor Day Weekend! Join us for food and festivities at the picturesque Uffington House. Proceeds to benefit HistoricRugby:…

  • Grill Rugby

    Grill Rugby

    Unique Cooking Demonstration and Al Fresco Dinner on the Lawn, Silent Auction, Specialty Cocktail, Labor Day Weekend! Join us for food and festivities at the picturesque Uffington House. Proceeds to benefit HistoricRugby:…

  • Cemetery Lantern Tour

    The Lantern Tour in Rugby’s Laurel Dale Cemetery allows you to meet 9 or 10 former Rugby residents who tell their stories, all true. The accounts come from letters, diaries…

  • Paint and Sip Workshop

    What could be more fun than joining a small group for a painting class while enjoying a glass of wine? Maybe having it in beautiful Historic Rugby’s newly renovated Hester…

  • Irish Road Bowling

    Irish Road Bowling

                Join in this fun game of Irish Road Bowling or just watch as players divide up into teams and roll and iron ball down…

  • Founders’ Day Celebration & Michaelmas Tea

    Help celebrate 15 decades + since Rugby’s founding on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880, our 142nd Anniversary. ALSO this year will mark to the month the 200th anniversary of our founder Thomas Hughes’…

  • Irish Road Bowling

    Irish Road Bowling

                Join in this fun game of Irish Road Bowling or just watch as players divide up into teams and roll and iron ball down…

  • Irish Road Bowling

    Irish Road Bowling

                Join in this fun game of Irish Road Bowling or just watch as players divide up into teams and roll and iron ball down…

  • Ghostly Gathering

    Ghostly Gathering

    Historic Rugby presents Ghostly Gathering on two Saturdays, October 22 and 29, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Eastern. This yearly Halloween-season celebration frequently sells out, and did last year. It is a favorite among village visitors, who enjoy a homemade chili dinner with dessert, followed by oil lamp tours of several historic buildings featuring the “Rugby…