With the Six Nations Championships in full swing why not visit the town of Rugby during your Canal Boat Holiday on the Oxford Canal.

The Six Nations Championships is an international competition involving six European teams England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

The format of the Championship is simple each team plays every other team once and two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss.

The current holders are France who won the Grand Slam in 2010 for the first time since 2004.

It was during a game of football in 1823 on a ground called The Close at Rugby School when William Webb Ellis a sixteen year old pupil of the school first took the ball in his arms and ran with it.

For Rugby enthusiasts the Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum is a small museum located less than 100 yards from where the game began.

A wealth of Rugby memorabilia is on display and it also contains one of the largest Rugby stores in the UK.

Traditional Rugby ball making methods can be seen and the match balls have been hand stitched here for over 180 years.

Richard Lindon and William Gilbert began making balls for Rugby school out of hand stitched leather casings with four panels and pigs bladders.

Originally they were both shoe makers but used their sewing skills to supply the school with the traditional oval shaped balls.

Rugby is a market town on the banks of the River Avon in the English county of Warwickshire.