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Loughborough
Clockwise from top left: Loughborough University; Loughborough Central railway station on the Great Central Railway; Loughborough Carillon; All Saints Church; Loughborough Town Hall & town centre
Loughborough (/ˈlʌfbərə/ⓘ[1]LUF-bə-rə) is a market town in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and the location of Loughborough University. At the 2021 Census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884,[2] the second largest in the county after Leicester. Loughborough is close to the Nottinghamshire border and is a short distance from Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and East Midlands Airport. It has the world's largest bell foundry, John Taylor Bellfounders, which produced Great Paul at St Paul's Cathedral; it has also made bells for the Carillon War Memorial, a landmark in the Queens Park in the town, and for York Minster.
^"Definition of 'Loughborough'". Collinsdictionary.com. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^"Loughborough in Leicestershire (East Midlands)". City Population. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
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