Loughborough

52.770833333333 - 1.2066666666667Koordinaten: 52 ° 46 ' N, 1 ° 12' W

Loughborough [ lʌfb ( ə ) ɹə ] is a university and industrial city with about 57,600 inhabitants ( as of 2004) in English Leicestershire, about 17 kilometers north of Leicester.

The largest employer is the University of Loughborough, a former technical college that is known for its outstanding faculty sports today, but also counts in media and communication studies, as well as in library sciences to the top rated of the British university system. Important industries on site who specialize in the construction of electrical appliances as well as the construction of railway wagons. The market for products from the agricultural environment is great. The area was inhabited in pre-Roman times and had in the 13th century an important wool market. Loughborough is the administrative center of the sub-district of Charnwood.

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Personalities

• The poet John Cleveland was born in 1613 in Loughborough.
• The chemist Arthur Donald Walsh was born in 1916 in Loughborough.