RUGELEY, or RUGOLEY, a market-town of England, in the county of Stafford, on the Trent, 7 miles N.W. of Lichfield and 123 N.W. of London. It is irregularly laid out; but the streets are clean, and the houses generally neat and well built. The parish church still retains a tower and chancel of considerable antiquity, but was almost entirely re-built in 1822. The chancel is now used as a school-room. The other churches in the town belong to Independents and Roman Catholics. For education there are here a grammar school, endowed, national, infant, and other schools. The manufactures comprise hardware, ropes, hats, agricultural implements, &c. Coal-pits are worked in the neighbourhood; and several fairs are held in the town. Pop. 3054.