Museums · East Midlands
Loughborough
Loughborough — a museum in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.
Betty Longbottom — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Loughborough is a museum in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom, listed in the Wikipedia register of British heritage and tourism sites. See the linked Wikipedia article for full details.
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Place summary
Loughborough is a museum located in the East Midlands. It features exhibitions that highlight the town's industrial heritage and local history. The museum serves as a resource for understanding the area's cultural development.
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Background
History
As Loughborough grew in the 20th century, it gained new suburbs. Thorpe Acre in the north-west of Loughborough was a hamlet of about twenty dwellings until the mid-20th century. Several earlier survivors include a 19th-century church – All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, built in 1845 and extended in 1968 – and a hostelry, The Plough Inn. The population is counted into the Loughborough–Garendon Ward of Charnwood Council. Many roads there are named after poets. After World War II, some of Thorpe Acre developed further, mainly in the 1950s for employees of Brush Engineering Works, with 100 dwellings built of no-fines concrete. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Thorpe Acre gained a new…
Visiting
In 1841, Loughborough was the destination for the first package tour, organised by Thomas Cook for a temperance group from Leicester.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.7725, -1.2078
- County
- Leicestershire
- District
- Charnwood
- Parish
- Charnwood, unparished area
- Postcode
- LE11 5BL
- Parliamentary constituency
- Loughborough
- Official site
- web.archive.org
Sources
- wikipedia: Loughborough (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Loughborough?
- Loughborough is in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.7725°, -1.2078°.
- Is Loughborough wheelchair accessible?
- Partially — OpenStreetMap notes limited wheelchair access at Loughborough. Check ahead for specific facilities.