Loughborough

The perfect blend of the great outdoors and great places to visit.

For the outdoorsy folk there is the historic and picturesque Bradgate Park, Beacon Hill Country Park, Bardon Hill, The Outwoods, Southlands Wood and Pillings Lock. Other nearby places to visit include the National Trusts Stoneywell Cottage designed by Ernest Gimson – a realisation of one man’s Arts and Crafts vision.

Visit the nearby 1620s house & Garden, the UK’s first trappiest Brewery at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey and historic Charnwood Villages. On the edge of the forest you’ll discover the famous University town of Loughborough with fascinating stories to uncover including The John Taylor Bell Foundry & Museum (the world’s largest bell foundry), the WW1 Carillion, the Great Central Railway – the UK’s only double track mainline, steam heritage railway complete with retired station and home of the Ladybird Books at Charnwood Museum.

  1. Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust

    Made in Loughborough, heard all over the world

  2. Loughborough – A Market Town

    800 years on and still pulling a crowd

  3. Stoneywell

    Arts and Crafts cottage that took root in forest setting

  4. A steam train crossing a bridge by a lake

    Great Central Railway

    A day return to the birthplace of popular tourism.

  6. Volcanic Rocks in Bradgate Park

    The Charnwood Forest

    A landscape half a billion years in the making

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