Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum

It takes its name from William Webb Ellis, who is credited with inventing the game of rugby football.

In 1983, the company was taken over by Rodney Webb, a former England international rugby union player, who conceived the idea of turning the premises into a museum, as at the time there was no museum in Britain dedicated solely to the game of rugby football.

[2] The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including a Gilbert football of the kind used at Rugby School that was exhibited at the first World's Fair,[3][4][5] at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the rubber bladder for rugby balls) brass hand pump.

Traditional handmade rugby balls are still made at the museum.

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