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]] Loughborough (pronounced 'luffbura' or 'luffbruh') is a town in Leicestershire, England. In 1995 the population of the town was estimated at 55,300, and it is the administrative centre for the Charnwood district.It has a university, Loughborough University, and a non-league football club, Loughborough Football Club. The University is the base for a number of athletes, including Paula Radcliffe, Sebastian Coe, and Steve Backley.
The A6 Trunk Road goes through the town, before heading along the Soar Valley towards either Leicester or Kegworth. It is also quite close to East Midlands Airport. It is off junction 23 of the M1. It is on the Midland Main Line between London St Pancras and Sheffield. The Brush Traction Works are next to the station. The Great Central Railway also once ran through the town, and now it is the home of a preserved section of line.
The town has the world's largest bell foundry — Taylor's Bellfoundry, which made the bells for the Carillon war memorial, a landmark in the town.
To the South of the town centre lies the Shelthorpe Estate - a large council estate, and the largest in the country when built in the 1920s and 1930s
The town's independent schools are Loughborough Grammar School (for boys, founded 1496) and Loughborough High School (for girls).
In 1841 Loughborough was the destination for the first ever package tour organised by Thomas Cook, for a group from Leicester.
Ladybird Books used to be based in Loughborough.
Just outside Loughborough to the north, Dishley Grange Farm was the home of Agricultural Revolutionist Robert Bakewell.
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