Place:Loughborough, Leicestershire, England

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NameLoughborough
Alt namesLocteburnesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 161
Lucteburnesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 161
TypeTown
Coordinates52.767°N 1.2°W
Located inLeicestershire, England     (500 - )
See alsoWest Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Loughborough is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population of 59,932 the second largest in the county after Leicester. It is close to the Nottinghamshire border and short distances from Leicester, Nottingham, East Midlands Airport and Derby. It has the world's largest bell foundry, John Taylor Bellfounders, which made bells for the Carillon War Memorial, a landmark in the Queens Park in the town, of Great Paul for St Paul's Cathedral, and for York Minster.

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