Loughborough is a market town best known for its close proximity to the delightful countryside of the Charnwood Forest and being home to one of the country’s top 10 performing universities for sport. Notable sporting graduates of Loughborough University include Sir Clive Woodward, Lord Sebastian Coe and Paula Radcliffe, MBE.
The Taylors Bell Foundry in Loughborough is renowned for casting the UK’s largest bell for St Paul’s Cathedral in London in 1881 and scenes for the film Buster, staring Phil Collins, were filmed in Loughborough at the Great Central railway station.