some Perkins descendants are buried within the church. The market at Hillmorton was originally more important than that of nearby Rugby, but it diminished and was abandoned by the mid 17th century. The old village green still exists, upon which is the remains of a 14th-century stone market cross which is grade II listed. In 1607 Hillmorton was involved in the Midland Revolt against enclosures, when some 3,000 people gathered at the village to proclaim the manifesto of the 'Diggers of Warwickshire'. The Oxford Canal was built around Hillmorton in the 1770s, where a flight of three locks known as 'Hillmorton Locks' was constructed (see below). Later the London and Birmingham Railway was constructed around Hillmorton in the 1830s. Hillmorton gives its name to Hillmorton Junction, where the direct line from Rugby to London (the West Coast Main Line) diverges from the Northampton Loop Line. Suburban expansion of Hillmorton westwards began in 1912 when land was sold off west of the village for the construction of the large Paddox housing estate, the development of which continued until the late-1930s. This development linked Hillmorton with Rugby. In 1931 the parish had a population of 3786. In 1932 Hillmorton was formally incorporated into Rugby, when the civil parish was abolished and most of its area absorbed into the Rugby municipal borough, the remainder went to Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. Most of Hillmorton consists of 20th century housing estates, although a some older buildings survive around the older parts of the village. To the east of Hillmorton was the former Rugby Radio Station, which opened in 1926, and contained radio masts high. For many years this was a major landmark, until 2007, when the last masts were demolished. The site is now used as a large housing development called Houlton. Hillmorton Locks Hillmorton is possibly most well known for its flight of canal locks on the Oxford Canal. The Hillmorton locks are consistently the busiest flight of locks on the national canal network. In 2019, 9,000 boats passed through the locks. They consist of three pairs of parallel twinned locks. They were originally built as single locks during 1769-74, but additional twin locks were added in 1840, in order to relieve congestion. At this time, the canal was extremely busy with working canal boats, and the locks were considerably busier than today; in 1842, 20,859 boats were recorded as passing through the locks. The bottom locks