Loughborough

Worth seeing in and around Loughborough

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Loughborough University

   Loughborough University is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when Loughborough Technical Institute was founded.

   1.5 km · public university in Loughborough, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Beacon Hill

   Beacon Hill, near Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England, is a popular country park. It is one of several beacon hills in the United Kingdom.

   5.6 km · hill in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of St John the Baptist, Stanford on Soar

   The Church of St. John the Baptist, Stanford on Soar is a parish church in the Church of England in Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire.

   2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Quorn and Woodhouse railway station

   Quorn and Woodhouse railway station is a heritage station on the Great Central Railway serving the villages of Quorn and Woodhouse in Leicestershire, England. It is situated between Loughborough Central and Rothley.

   3.8 km · heritage station on the Great Central Railway · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Loughborough College

   Loughborough College is a large general further education college in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It provides both further education and higher education courses on a single campus.

   1 km · college in Leicestershire, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Pilkington Library

   The Pilkington Library is the academic library at Loughborough University, situated in the West Park of the university campus at Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England. It is named after Lord Pilkington.

   2.2 km · academic library at Loughborough University · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Garendon Abbey

   Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

   3.4 km · abbey in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Bartholomew's Church, Quorn

   St Bartholomew's Church, Quorn is the Church of England parish church for Quorn, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed, dating from 12th century-14th century with a later 1848 addition.

   4.1 km · Grade I listed church in Quorn, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   All Saints Church, Loughborough

   All Saints Church, officially All Saints with Holy Trinity is the Church of England parish church of the town of Loughborough, Leicestershire within the Diocese of Leicester.

   300 m · Grade I listed church in Loughborough, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England,UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods

    Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods is a 147.5-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Loughborough in Leicestershire. It is also a Geological Conservation Review and a Nature Conservation Review site.

    4.1 km · biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What Wikivoyage says to see

A major remodelling of the town centre in the 1930s means that large parts of the centre were built in Art Deco style and many of these building survive. Of note is the foyer of Reel Cinema.

1. 01
   The Sock

   Market Place hosts the towns much criticised, but now much loved 'Sockman' statue.

2. 02
   The Carillon

   Carillon Tower (universally mispronounced ca-ri-li-on) in Queen's Park is the town's war memorial and the outstanding landmark.

3. 03
   Great Central Railway

   Great Central Road, sales@gcrailway.co.uk.

4. 04
   John Taylor Bellfoundry Museum
5. 05
   Charnwood

   The small Charnwood museum occupies the old swimming baths in the Queen's Park.

6. 06
   Loughborough Carillon

   Loughborough Carillon is a carillon and war memorial in Queen's Park, and is a well-known landmark, visible from several miles away.

From Wikivoyage: Loughborough, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Loughborough

Airports

East Midlands (EMA), 10 km · Birmingham (BHX), 51 km · Manchester (MAN), 96 km

Stations

Loughborough railway station, 1.1 km · Barrow-upon-Soar railway station, 4.9 km · Loughborough Central railway station, 900 m

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Loughborough

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
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  105 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £14–19
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• London → Loughborough

  158 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £16–22
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Loughborough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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