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Description in 1877:
"Loughborough, the second manufacturing and market town in the county, has been greatly improved and extended during the present century, and is pleasantly situated on the western side of the Soar Navigation and the Midland Railway, 11 miles N. by W. of Leicester, 15 S. by W. of Nottingham, 17 miles S. E. of Derby, and 108 N. N. W. of London, to which it was a great thoroughfare for coaches, vans &c., from the north, before the opening of the railway on which it has a commodious station. The Charnwood Forest Railway, now in the course of construction, will extend from Loughborough, by Sheepshed, to Coalville. The line will be worked by the London and North-Western Railway Company. Loughborough is a polling place, and the principal place of election for the Parliamentary representatives of the Northern Division of Leicestershire; and gives name to a Poor Law Union, and a County Court District. The navigation of the River Soar, is brought close to the east side of the town, by a canal, cut about 1776, and communicates directly with the Trent, and with Leicester and the Union Canal. A tramway , extending about 2 1/2 miles westward, to Broadhurst Hill, connected the town with Charnwood Forest Canal, which was formed about 1823, but has never been used and has long been dry. Few towns experienced a more rapid increase during the first thirty years of the present century than Loughborough; and for this increase it is indebted to the manufacture of worsted hosiery, introduced by the late Joseph Paget, Esq., and Mr. John Cook; to the spinning of mohair, a patent for which was obtained by the late Mr. Cartwright; to the great increase of cotton hosiery; and chiefly to the introduction of the lace, or bobbin net machine, by Messrs. Heathcoat and Lacey, in 1809."
WHITE's "History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland, 3rd Edition," 1877
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The town had the Permanent Library in Baxtergate by 1848, with 3,500 volumes of books. The Free Library, listed below, was built in 1904 and was the gift of Andrew Carnegie. It was formally opened on 21 June, 1905
- Loughborough Library
- Granby Street
- Loughborough
- Tel: (01509) 212985
- Fax: (01509) 610594
The Pilkington Library opened in 1980 as part of Loughborough University.
John Taylor's Bell Foundry Museum is located in Cobden Street, not far from the Charnwood Museum. It features an instructional tour on bell-making and even lets you ring different bells.
The Charnwood Museum on Granby Street is a local history museum about Loughborough history, geology, archaeology and industries.
The Old Rectory Museum is a small, 13th century stone building set in quiet surroundings on Steeple Row close to the town center. It has two stories and the upper room is only accessible by a staircase. The downstairs room has lots of interesting artefacts and information.
- DEAKIN, W A (1974), "C19 Loughborough: A Review of the Past Century", Echo Press, Loughborough.
- HUMPHREY, W (1988), "Loughborough 1888-1988: The Birth of a Borough", Charnwood Borough Council.
- Unknown, (1955), "Walks round Loughborough", Echo Press, Loughborough, 40 pages. Open Library: OL17431460M. Book is downloadable in PDF format from the Library.
- WIX, D, HUMPHREY, W and KELL, I (1988), "Loughborough Past and Present", Ladybird, Loughborough, ISBN: 9-780721411255.
- The Cemetery was formed in 1857 and is on Leicester road. It covered 7.5 acres and contained two mortuary chapels and was managed by the Loughborough and Lanpatan Burial Board.
- The Cemetery was enlarged in 1892 to cover 12.5 acres.
- Loughborough Cemeteries Burials Index is available on microfiche from the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. Each of five fiches covering the years 1857-1877, 1877-1891, 1891-1903, 1903-1916, 1916-1929 respectively can be obtained at a cost of £1.95 each.
- The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print. Volumes 15, 16 and 17 covering the Loughborough Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2059 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2273 thru 2275 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3254 thru 3258 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2514 thru 2517 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The town was divided into two ecclesiastical parishes; All Saints and Emmanuel. In 1879 a third ecclesiastical parish was added for Holy Trinity. A fourth was created when St. Peter's was added.
- All Saints church was erected around the close of the 16th century.
- All Saints church was completely restored in 1862-1864.
- All Saints church seats about 1,000.
- Emmanuel church was erected in the Decorated style and consecrated on 6 September, 1837.
- Emmanuel church seats 850.
- Good Shepherd grew out of a Women’s Friendly Group in Shelthorpe, a pre-war housing estate on the south side of Loughborough, in the 1930s. The church was built in 1938 as a Mission Church as part of the larger Emmanuel Parish.
- Holy Trinity church was erected in 1878 in the Early Decorated style.
- Holy Trinity church seats 510.
- Saint Peter's ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1909, although the church wasn't completed until 1912.
- Saint Peter's church is in the Decorated Gothic style.
- Saint Peter's church seats 500.
- A Convent for the Sisters of Providence was established during the 1800s on Park Lane. In addition to their charity work, they also maintained a day school under government inspection for the Loughborough poor.
- The church would have been in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
- Registers held at the The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland include:
Loughborough, All Saints (DE667/DE1619/DE2601)- Baptisms 1538 - 1948
- Banns 1815 - 1853
- Marriages 1538 - 1978
- Burials 1538 - 1913
- Nota Bene:
- From 1554 - 1558 no entries were made in the registers
- In 1838 the parish was split into 3 separate parishes
- Loughborough, Emmanuel Parish Church (DE2594/DE4307)
- Baptisms 1838 - 1975
- Marriages 1839 - 1985
- Burials 1838 - 1886
- Loughborough, Holy Trinity (DE2602)
- Baptisms 1879 - 1961
- Banns 1879 - 1972
- Marriages 1879 - 1955
- Loughborough, St. Peters (DE3941/DE4162)
- Baptisms 1921 - 1936
- Marriages 1924 - 1956
- Burials 1912 - 1965
The Society of Genealogists holds copies of records from All Saints Parish Church and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, which can be studied at their library in London.
The General Baptists had a chapel in both Baxtergate (1770) and Woodgate (1881).
The Unitarians had a chapel in Victoria Road, founded in 1744.
The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Leicester Road, built in 1828. This was replaced with a Congregationalist Chapel built in 1908 on Frederick Street. It could seat 550.
The Roman Catholics had St. Mary's Church here on Ashby Road built in 1835 in the Italian style, with an attached graveyard. The RC Church could seat 250. This building was replaced with a new church in 1924.
- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Loughborough is a village, a township and a parish. It is on the River Soar midway between Leicester city and Nottingham city and is 114 miles north of London, 11 miles north of Leicester and 17 miles south-east from Derby. The parish covered 489 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle. The parish abuts Nottinghamshire county to the north and includes the hamlets of Knightthorpe and Woodthorpe.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, from the M1, turn east at the A512 and proceed into Loughborough.
- There is still passenger train service to Loughborough.
- The Loughborough Community Internet Project provides a variety of local information including a genealogy page.
- There are four museums in Loughborough.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Loughborough to another place.
- In the mid-1800s the town sported woolen mills, framework knitting and bobbin-net-lace manufacturing. A great deal of coal passed through the town via the canal.
- The town held fairs on 28 March, 25 April, Holy Thursday, 12th August and 13 November for horses, cows and sheep. Cheese fairs were held 24 March and 30 September.
- The town had a Theater built in 1822, later purchased by the Odd Fellows to hold their meetings in.
- The Town Hall and Corn Exchange were built in 1855-1856 in the Market place.
- The Town has, for more than a century, been home to John Taylor and Co., long noted for some of the large bells they have cast.
- The County building was built in 1860 and enlarged in 1903. The building contained a police office and the county court room. Petty sessional hearings were held here every other Wednesday.
- "About Britain" have a description and history of Loughborough on their website.
- Loughborough is in the Borough of Charnwood whose heritage page provides information on museums, war memorial and the carrilon.
- Ian JESSIMAN has written a paper entitled "A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640 With a Specific Reference to Loughborough".
- In August, 2006, the BBC reported that workmen in Loughborough discovered a secret living chamber dug and built under a house. The house had once belonged to John HEATHCOTE who had invited the fury of the Luddites after inventing a lace-making machine in the early 1800s. It is unknown if the chambers were ever used as HEATHCOTE and his family fled to Devon after a Luddite uprising in Loughborough in 1816.
- Loughborough holds an annual family event called "Loughborough by the Sea", usually around the second week in August. They truck in about 12 tons of sand to the Market Place and stalls are set up for marketing goods and souvenirs. Pull up a beach chair and watch the children build sand castles.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK537196 (Lat/Lon: 52.771331, -1.205481), Loughborough which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Loughborougrh and District General Hospital and Dispensary, in Baxter gate, was established in 1819 and was rebuilt in 1862. Built of white brick, It was enlarged in 1888 and 1896. The King Edward VII memorial ward for children was built and presented in 1911.
When the First World War broke out in August 1914 Loughborough General Hospital, like many other hospitals in the UK, was designated as an Auxiliary Military Hospital, with its primary function the treatment of wounded soldiers. Forty-two women from Loughborough became VAD members of the Red Cross and served in the military wards at the hospital in Baxter Gate. Twenty-seven gave their services for the entire duration of the war. Fifteen more volunteers joined between 1916 and 1918. Two of the VAD assistants, Miss Jessie ABBOUT and Mrs. Annie BALDWIN, each gave 5,450 hours of their time over the war years.
There is a list of the VAD workers at the Loughborough Roll of Honour website.
Hospitals were not obliged to archive patient records, but the archive office will hold management and accounting records and, perhaps, some photographs.
- In 1881, the 1st Leicestershire Rifle Volunteers, H Company, had its headquarters at the Corn Exchange. Captain W. WHITE commanding.
- In 1912, the 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, H Company, had its headquarters at the Drill Hall in Granby Street. Lt.-Col. G. GERMAN, commanding; Srgt.-Major Edward SMITH, drill instructor. Lt.-Col GERMAN commanded this unit from 1908 into 1913.
- Also in 1912, the C Squadron of the Prince Albert's own Leicestershire Yeomanry had its headquarters at Toothill road. Major W. F. MARTIN, commanding; Srgt-Major George Charles PARKER, drill instructor.
- In 1912, Captain William Howley Beaumont HEYGATE lived in Loughborough. He was retired from the Royal Artillery. He was born in May, 1854 in London and died in 1928 in Bournemouth, Dorset.
- In the Queen's Park is a tower, containing 47 bells, erected in memory of the Loughborough men who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. It was unveiled on July 2nd, 1923, by Field-Marshal Sir William E. ROBERTSON, baronet.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the War Memorial Carillon in Queen's Park on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
- Loughborough was bombed by German Zeppelins around 8pm on 31 January 1916. The BBC has an article on the attack.
- There are 61 Commonwealth War Graves in the Leicester Road Cemetery.
For background information, visit the Loughborough Roll of Honour site.
The names on the War Memorial (provided at: Leicestershire War Memorial #676) and the Roll of Honour site (above) are:
("+" = World War 2):
- Walter Ernest Abell
- Bernard Eric Adams +
- Harry Bernard Adams
- Fred Adcock
- William Adcock
- Wilfred Derek Adkin +
- George William Ainsworth
- Alfred George Aldridge
- John Allen
- Percy Herbert Allen
- Walter Allen
- B. Allwood +
- Edwin Angrave
- George Randall Angrave
- Herbert Angrave
- Thomas Edward Angrave
- Walter Armstrong
- John Thomas Attenborough
- Roland Austin
- Matthew Taylor Aves
- Henry Bacchus
- Robert Bacchus
- Albert Edward Bacon
- Charles Ernest Bailey
- Harry Bailey
- Rowland James Baker
- Charles Frederick Ball
- G. E. Ball
- Albert Ernest Barker
- Harold George Barker
- Reginald Horace Barker
- George William Barnett
- William Barnett
- Edward Barradell
- George Henry Barradell
- Charles Ernest Barrett
- Walter Barrett
- Howard Cyril Barrow
- Eric Graham Barsby
- John Ernest Barsby
- George Barson
- Peter Vincent Barthel +
- George Henry Bassford
- Charles Roland James Baxter
- Albert William Beadman
- Henry James Beasley +
- Herbert Beaver
- Alfred Beck
- Herbert Beck +
- G. Beech +
- John Keith Bennett
- Charles Sidney Bennett
- George Bennett
- John Keith Bennett +
- Frank Benskin
- Sidney Frederick Benson
- Donovan Vernon Craigie Bentley +
- Arthur Bexon
- Alfred Biddles
- James Henry Biddles Jnr.
- James Henry Biddles Snr.
- Alfred Mons Billings +
- M. Billings +
- Harold Kenneth Bintcliffe +
- John Birch
- Frederick Bird
- Robert Birkin
- Ronald Birkin +
- Frederick Bishop
- F. W. Black +
- John Arthur Black
- Thomas William Blackwell
- William Blood
- Leslie Blyth +
- George Edward Blythe +
- Bernard Walter Bombroff
- Ernest William Bonser
- Fergus O'Connor Bonser
- Tomas Fergus Christopher Bonser
- Hector Robinson Booth
- Ernest Dowell Gee Bosomworth +
- William John Bottrill
- William Edgar Bourne
- Sidney Alfred Bowler
- Alfred Thomas Bradbury +
- Eric Bradshaw +
- George Henry Bradshaw
- Stanley Bradshaw
- John Tom (Thomas?) Bradwick
- Albert Bramley
- Gilman Bramley
- John Henry Bramley
- Horace Brant +
- John Edward Bregazzi +
- John William Briggs
- George Harold Bright
- John Kenneth 'Ken' Brompton +
- Alec Brookes
- Ernest Albert Brookes +
- F. Brooks
- Walter Brooks +
- Joseph Brown
- Herbert Browton
- John Douglas Bruin +
- Douglas John Bryan
- Ronald Bryan +
- Robert Arthur Buckey +
- Lawrence William Bunney
- Patrick Gifford Burder +
- William Burnham
- Michael Bury +
- Thomas Arthur Butler
- Albert Leonard Callis
- Frederick Cameron +
- James Carey
- Clifford Carpendale +
- Francis Bird Carter
- William Francis Cavers
- John Gregory Chambers
- Peter Gregory Chambers
- Thomas William Chambers +
- Arthur Donald Chapman
- Bertie Mayhew Chapman
- Hubert Frank Chapman
- John Theophilus Chapman
- Harry Chatwin
- J. Chawnor
- Arthur Chell +
- Walter Chester +
- Herbert Childs
- Peter Chubb +
- Everard Bernard Clarke
- Hilary Calvert Clarke
- John Clarke
- John Edward Clarke
- William Frederick Clarke
- Patrick Close +
- George Clowes
- George Cockerill
- Matthew Cockerill
- Albert Edward Coleman +
- John James Collington
- Frank Alfred Collumbell
- William Edgar Collumbell
- John Coltman +
- Albert Edgar Cooling
- Frank Cooper
- Frank Soars Cooper
- Frederick Oliver Cooper
- George Henry Copson
- Sydney Corah
- William Ernest Hoe Corah
- Charles Corbett
- Cris Burrows Cotton
- Albert Ernest Coulson
- Frank Coulson
- Herbert Hart Court
- Edwin Francis Cowley
- Joseph Cross
- Patrick William Cullen
- Robert Cullen
- Arthur Cunningham
- Arthur Cunningham
- Percy Cunningham
- Harry Cunnington
- Frank Joseph Cuthbertson
- Harry Cutts
- Percy Godfrey Dakin
- Frederick Ernest Dalby +
- Horace Henry Dalby
- William Dalby
- J. A. Dale +
- William Dann
- Albert James Darter
- Gordon Walter Davidson +
- Arnold Ernest Davies +
- David Wyndham Davies +
- Frederick Davies +
- Wilfred Davies
- William Davies
- Ernest Davison
- Arthur Leonard Dawson
- George Edward Dean
- Charles Arthur De Ville
- Arthur Vernon De-Hayes +
- James Parker Denike +
- Edward Patrick Deville +
- David (Sonnie) Dewar
- Lancelot John Austen Dewar
- Bertie M. Diggle
- Walter Dilkes
- Walter Chamberlin Doidge
- John Dolphin
- William Dolphin
- Stephen Nelson Dougan +
- Lionel Dowding
- Mark Downs +
- Tom Drury
- Albert Victor Duckitt
- Basil Leslie Duesbury +
- Arthur Dunn
- Walter Thomas Dunning +
- John Bernard Eastman +
- John Henry Eaton
- Joseph Edmund Edwards +
- Albert Edward Eggleston
- Enoch Elliott
- John Nahum Elliott
- Henry David Ellis
- Reginald Staynes Elsom +
- Sidney H. Elyard +
- Harry Bernard Emerson
- Arthur Laban Evans +
- G. G. Fail +
- William Edgar Fallows
- Edgar Faulks
- Herbert Arthur Faulks
- Philip Albert Faulks
- Arthur Merton Fisher
- Frederick Albert Fisher
- James Frederick Lorimer Fison
- Alfred George Fletcher
- Frank Charles Fletcher
- George Maltby Fletcher
- James Farmer Fletcher
- Herbert Edward Flint
- Leslie Flowers +
- Henry Bradley Folkes
- William Amos Ford
- Charles Henry Foster +
- Sydney Herbert George Francis +
- James Freestone
- Alfred Leonard French
- Charles Friday
- Arthur Froggatt
- Richard John Fry +
- John Severn Fuller
- Gilbert Samuel Gadsby +
- Ernest James John Ganley
- H. Garner +
- John Eli Gay
- Edward Henry Genever
- John Henry Gibbins
- Herbert Douglas Gibbons +
- John H. William Gilbert +
- George Giles
- Sidney Lewis Gilks
- Harry Gledhill +
- John Henry Gimson
- Walter Stanley Gimson
- Harry Gledhill
- John Marshall Glover
- John William Godber
- Noel Herbert Godkin +
- Walter Gould
- Herbert Goulden
- Lewis Granger +
- Ernest Albert Grant
- Fred William Grant
- Samuel David Grant
- Richard Thomas Grapes +
- Thomas Bertie Graves
- Thomas Gray
- Albert Charles Green
- Alfred G Green +
- Alfred William Green
- David Green
- John Henry (Jack) Green +
- Leonard Green +
- Richard Green
- W. Green +
- Charles Matthew Grimbley
- Henry Arthur Grudgings
- Thomas Cyril Guest
- Walter Craig Gunn
- John Frederick Gutheridge
- Irene Elsie May Guy +
- Henry (Harry) Hack
- Frederick Arthur William Hague
- George Hague
- Leonard Gibson Hague
- Edward Sydney Herbert Haigh
- Joseph Reginald Haigh
- Walter Bertram Haigh
- Thomas Haines +
- Charles Eric Hall +
- Fredrick Hall
- Percy Hall
- Wilfred Hall
- Henry Hallam
- Jeffrey Hallam +
- James Hamilton
- Walter Hammond
- Louis William Hancock +
- Albert Frederick Hancox
- Arthur Handley
- Albert William Hanford
- Raymund Joseph Hannan +
- William Dean Hanson
- William Ernest Harbidge +
- Cecil Hemslie Harding +
- Leslie George Hardy
- Charles Henry Harris
- John Joseph Harris
- Samuel Halford Hartland
- William Herbert Hartland
- Everard Clarence Harvey
- John Albert Harvey
- John Robert Harvey +
- Victor Harvey +
- Albert Henry Hawes +
- Gilbert Edwin Hawker
- Arthur Hayes
- Herbert Haywood
- John Bernard Hebditch +
- George Walter Hemstock
- Reginald Henman
- E. L. Henson
- Frank Henson
- Leonard Henson
- Randall Henson
- Claud Raymond Heygate
- Arnold Hickling
- Cyril Norman Hicklin
- John Thomas Hickling
- T. Highton +
- John Henry Hill
- John Samuel Hill
- Leonard Raymond Hilsdon +
- Harold Hipkins
- Albert Hitherby
- Ernest (Dick) Hitherley
- John Albert Hitherley
- Thomas Hoe
- Arthur Leslie Holland +
- Fred Holland
- A. Holmes
- Charles Sidney Holmes
- Harry Holmes
- Stephen Thomas Holt
- William Leslie Holt
- Harry Hopewell
- Ernest Hopkins
- Joseph Tom Hopkins
- Tom Edgar Houlson
- Cephas Howard
- Harry Howard
- Arnold Edward Howlett +
- James Howlett
- Donald Frank Hubbard +
- Jack Hubbard +
- Cyril Hudson +
- Stephen Hudson +
- Thomas Hudson
- Frank Hueck
- William Caleb Hulin
- John Hull +
- Walter Hull
- Thomas Leslie Hurst +
- Geoffrey Hutt +
- Thomas Hutton
- George Alfred Ireland
- Joseph Thomas Ireland
- Maurice Frank Ireland +
- Reginald Roberts Irlam
- William Harriman Jackson
- Eric Ivo Jacques
- John Newton Jacques
- Albert Leonard James
- Stanley James +
- William Henry James
- Bernard Jarram
- Ernest Jarram
- Sydney Jeffs
- William Frederick Jelley
- John Jennison +
- Joseph Jerrison
- R. John +
- W. R. Johns +
- Ernest Francis Johnson
- George Herbert Johnson +
- Leslie Ralph Johnson +
- Joseph Edward Johnson
- Herbert Jones
- Percy Spencer Jones
- Randolph Cecil Jones
- Ernest Cato Kealey
- Henry Percy Kealey
- Albert Edward Keightley
- Percival Frederick Keightley
- Ernest Patrick Kelly
- James Kelly
- Philip Arthur Kennison +
- William Francis Kent
- Frederick Kerr
- Horace James Kerr
- Arthur Kidger
- Ernest Watts Kidger
- John James Bernard Kidger
- Ernest King
- Reginald Ernest King +
- Charles William Kirk
- George Eric Kirk +
- Earl Allan Knight +
- George Knight
- Herbert Knight
- Edward (Ted) Lacey
- Charles Edward Lancaster
- Francis William Landon
- J. Landon
- Richard Albert Farmer Lane
- George Lattimore
- John Charles (Charlie) Lawrence
- James Lawrenson
- Douglas Leatherland +
- A. Leavesley
- Ernest Arthur Leavesley
- Dennis Morton Lee +
- George Ernest Lee
- Samuel Lees
- Alexander William Leslie
- Donald Lester +
- Fred Lester
- Isaac Lester
- M. Lester
- Philip Frederick Lill +
- John Horace Lindley +
- George Lindsey +
- J. Lingwood +
- Jenkin Lloyd +
- Cecil Ernest Loader
- Neville Cecil Loader +
- Charles Geoffrey Loades +
- James Loftus +
- Arthur Longson +
- Hcm? Lovell
- John Thomas Ludlam
- Lawrence C. Ludlam
- Edward Ralph Lumley +
- Alexander MacIntosh
- Eric Alfred Main +
- Alfred Manley
- Horace Manley
- Reginald Frank Manning
- William Manning
- Edward Manton
- Edward Revell Marriott
- Thomas Marshall
- John William Mason
- Peter Edward Mason +
- George Harry Matthews
- Robert Mayson
- A Mee
- Bernard Albert Mee
- Charles Arthur Mee
- Frederick Arthur Mee
- George Walter Frederick Mee
- James William Mellors
- Morton Metcalfe
- Arthur Miller
- James Acquilla Kilgour Miller, HMS Hood +
- Natie Miller +
- John William Kilgour Miller +
- George Henry Mills
- Henry (Harry) Mitchell
- Arthur Monk
- George William Monk
- John Monk
- Harry Wood Moore
- Herbert Bolton Moore
- William Arthur Moorhouse
- Frederick Walter Moss
- Gerald Alec Moss
- Howard James Harding Moss
- Harry Mounteney
- Charles Henry Mowbray
- A. L. Mulholland +
- John Henry Mulholland
- Roy Clayton Alford Mullis +
- Walter Murdoch
- Stuart Murray +
- Leonard Musson
- Claude Ronald Nash +
- Frederick Lionel Nash
- Herbert Manico Nash
- Albert Edward Neal +
- Andrew Claude Needham +
- Frank Needham +
- Thomas Needham
- Zach Needham +
- Arthur Newbold
- Bertie Newbold
- Arthur Newbon
- Stanley Newby +
- Ernest Newton
- Roland (Ronald?) Charles Nobes +
- Arthur North
- Eric Arthur North
- Percy North
- Thomas Alfred Oliver
- Percy Onion
- Colin Herbert Orton
- Harold Orton +
- Herbert Orton Jnr.
- Henry Fred Osborn
- Ernest Leslie Oswin
- John Edward Oswin +
- Raymond Ottey +
- R. Overton +
- Charles E. William Page
- Gerald Lewis Paget
- Peter William Paget +
- Arthur Frederick Palmer
- Edwin Palmer
- Thomas Palmer
- Alfred John Paltridge
- George Charles Parker
- Harry Parkinson
- Ivor John Parkinson
- Alfred John Parr
- Frank Parrott
- Harold Cubiss Partridge
- Thomas Bond Paul
- Alfred Herbert Payne +
- Geoffrey Oswald Payne +
- Edward Vernon Peacock +
- Albert Peak
- George Thomas Pears
- John James Pears
- James Pearson
- Sydney Peat +
- John Herbert Peaty +
- John Geoffrey Peberdy +
- Lawrence Peel
- James William Pegg +
- Kenneth Pepper +
- Samuel Pepper +
- Thomas Pepper
- Charles Percival
- Enoch Percival
- Joseph William Percival
- Albert Perkins
- Norman George Perkins
- James Bullimore Phillips
- Owen Phillips
- Leonard George Arthur (Phipps) Pilkington
- John Herbert (Phipps) Pilkington
- J. C. Pitt +
- Francis Burton Pitts
- Edward Stephen Plumb
- John Thomas A. Pollard +
- James William Ponsford
- Richard Maurice Poole
- John Potter
- John Humphrey Powell
- William Ernest Powell +
- Alexander Philip Price +
- Harold Edwin Price
- Albert J. Priestley +
- Christopher Priestley
- Frank Priestley +
- John Norman Priestley +
- John Peter Priestley +
- John (Jack) Sutton Priestley
- James Prime
- Charles Edgar Pritchard
- Harold Heafford Proudfoot
- Frederick James Purdy +
- Albert (Bert) William Howard Purnell
- John Herbert Putt
- John Francis Anthony Rayns +
- Leonard Redfern +
- Cyril Redman +
- Ernest John Watts Reed +
- Clifford William Rees +
- Hubert William Reynolds
- Horace Richards
- Henry Arthur Richardson
- George Stephen Roadley +
- Samuel Robbins
- George Roberts
- Albert Robey
- Thomas Robey
- Frederick Henry Robinson
- Walter George Robinson
- Alfred Rodgers
- Clifford William Roe +
- Jack Roe +
- Phillip Neville Rolfe +
- Thomas Anselo Ronchetti +
- William Arthur Routledge
- Albert Rowbotham
- George Rue
- Thomas Rushton +
- George William Russell +
- Harold M. Russell
- Michael Russell
- George Ryder +
- George Frederick Sales
- George Frederick Sanderson +
- Frank Savage
- Rudolf (Richard) Schmidt
- Cecil Edward Screaton
- Herbert Spencer Screaton
- Thomas Thorold Screaton
- Walter Sellars
- Francis Arthur Sharpe
- Herbert Sharpe
- Thomas William B. Sharpe
- Walter Sharp(e)
- Frederick George Sharrard
- William Shephard
- Frederick Gordon Shepherd +
- Harold Shepherd +
- Thomas Joseph Sherriff
- Allen Simmons
- Arthur Simmons +
- Frederick Simmons
- Harold Simmons
- John Adrian Simmons
- Gerald Horace Austin Simpkin
- Robert Charles Simpson
- G. H. Slater +
- Charles Horace Slater
- Alec Smalley +
- Harry Smalley
- Thomas Smalley
- Bertie Joseph Smith
- Charles James Smith +
- Francis Smith +
- Frederick Augustus Smith
- Herbert Smith
- James Albert Smith +
- John Smith
- John William Smith
- Reginald Smith +
- Sidney Smith +
- Walter Albert Smith
- William Smith +
- George Thomas Smythe
- Frederick Snow
- William Henry Soars +
- George Somerville +
- John Elias Sparkes +
- Bramford Sparrow
- Maurice Spence +
- Leonard Spencer +
- Sidney Spencer
- Timothy Spencer
- David Spicer
- Thomas Spicer +
- Wilfred Roland Spiers +
- William Henry Spinks
- Charles Edward Squires
- Frederick Squires
- James Henry Squires
- Thomas William Squires
- William Squires +
- Albert Stanford
- George Staniland
- Anthony Martin Stanton +
- Joseph Francis Starbuck
- Edward Start
- Harry Stenson
- Albert Edward Stevens
- Arthur Stevenson
- Frank Bradley Stevenson
- George Harry Bradley Stevenson
- Owen Moore Stevenson +
- Silas Stevenson
- Albert Edgley Stockwell
- Wilfred Stokes
- Herbert Thomas Stone
- William Storey
- John William Stubbs
- Walter Stubbs
- Benjamin William Sturgis
- Bernard Sutton
- Thomas Sutton
- William Sutton
- William Richard Sutton +
- Archibald David Swann
- John Henry Potter Swann
- John Alexander Swift +
- James Henry Tailby
- Wilfred Ernest Talton
- Albert Henry Taylor
- Alfred Hall Taylor
- Archibald William Taylor +
- Arnold Bradley Taylor
- George William Marchant Taylor
- Gerard Bardsley Taylor
- John Morton Taylor
- John William Taylor
- Francis Henry Tebbutt
- Lorwerth Leuan Thomas +
- Reginald Herbert Patrick Thomas +
- Geoffrey Peirce Thompson +
- Harry Thompson +
- John Edward Thompson
- Samuel Thompson
- Charles Thorne
- Albert Thornett +
- Edwin Thornewell +
- Alfred Thorneycroft +
- Leonard Thornton
- Charles Clarence Thorpe
- Thomas Allen Thorpe
- Thomas Rock Timperley
- Lacey Anthony Tingle +
- Roland Ernest Tivey +
- Eric Reginald Todd +
- George Tomlinson
- Richard Forman Tomlinso
- Frederick Bradley Tooley
- Herbert Topham
- Laurence Frederick Towell +
- Reginald Ernest Trease
- Edward Charles Trussell
- Kenneth Glendor Llewellyn Tudor +
- George Archie Turner
- Roger Bingham Turner
- George William Tuson +
- William Henry Valentine Tustain
- C. W. Tyler
- James Tyler
- John Henry Tyler
- William Tyler
- Herbert Bernard Unwin
- Ronald Unwin
- Joseph Arthur Upton
- Joseph William Utting +
- John Lawrence Varley
- Arthur John Vesty
- Kenneth Jesson Vick
- Sidney Wade
- David Noel Wain
- Donald Eli Wain +
- John Arthur Wain
- George Lawton Wainwright
- Ernest Wakefield
- John Waldron
- Frank Edwin Waldron +
- Albert Walker
- Arthur Sampey Walker
- Arthur William Walker
- Cecil Walker
- Eric Shearstone Walker +
- John Walker
- Wilson Walker
- Percy Wall
- Cyril Herbert Walton +
- Frank Poole Ward
- George Arthur Ward
- Herbert (Bert) William Ward
- James Utting Ward
- Arthur Wareham
- Henry Wareham
- Walter Bernard Waring
- George Arthur Waterfield
- Alfred Watson
- Edward Watson
- Arthur Watts +
- William Webster
- Ronald Weldon +
- Reginald Wells
- William (Billie) Wesley
- Frederick West
- Frederick West
- A. L. Westacott +
- Thomas Weston +
- Walter Charles Whatnall
- John Charles Wheatley
- Ronald Wheatley +
- Albert William Whitaker
- Arthur Whitbread
- Robert Edward George Whitby +
- Fred Whitcroft
- Hubert Ronald White
- William Henry White
- Robert John Frederick Whitehead +
- Sidney Whiteman
- Ernest William Whitesmith
- Albert William Whittaker
- Charles Robert Whitworth +
- Herbert Walker Widdowson
- Joseph (Joe) Spencer Wild
- John William Wilkins
- Albert Wilkinson
- J. H. Wilkinson
- Ronald Wilkinson
- Fred Williams +
- Alban Noel Wills
- Arthur Wilson
- D. Wilson +
- Douglas Wilson +
- Fred Wilson +
- Frederick Wilson
- John Hardy Wilson
- W. Wilson
- George Frederick Witherbed +
- Jack Wolffe +
- Joseph Henry Wood
- Stanley Wilfred Woods +
- George Thomas Woolley
- John Woolridge
- Harry Wootton
- William Glaize Wormley
- Reginald Josiah Wortley +
- James Wylie +
- William Stanley Yeates +
- The name is pronounced by locals as something between "Luff-burra" and "Luff-bro". If you try to say "Louw-Boro", people will assume that you are a tourist or a rube.
Jon CANTRILL provides this entry from the Derby Mercury of 7th January 1829: DEATHES: "At Loughborough, on Friday se'nnight, at a long and painful illness, Harriet Mary, wife of Mr. Coles TOMLINSON, draper, and daughter of Mrs. FOWLER."
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county. It became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the mid division of the county.
- In August, 1888, this town of Loughborough was granted a charter of incorporation.
- On 25 March, 1891, this parish was enlarged by gaining a portion of Knightthorpe Civil Parish.
- On 31 December, 1891, this parish was reduced in size to help create Nanpanton Civil Parish.
- On 01 October, 1902, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Knightthorpe Civil Parish and that area amalgamated with Loughborough.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Barendon Civil Parish and 774 acres amalgamated with Loughborough.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Hathern Civil Parish and 1,322 acres amalgamated with Loughborough.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Nanpanton Civil Parish and 1,649 acres amalgamated with Loughborough.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the gaining 7 acres from of Quorndon Civil Parish.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the gaining 600 acres from of Shepshed Civil Parish.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Thorpe Acre and Dishley Civil Parish and 1,147 acres amalgamated with Loughborough.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the gaining 300 acres from of Woodhouse Civil Parish.
- On 01 April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by the abolition of Woodthorpe Civil Parish and 292 acres amalgamated with Loughborough.
- District governance is provided by the Charnwood Borough Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard every Wednesday in the Loughborough petty session hearings in the County Buildings in Woodgate, constructed in 1860 and enlarged in 1903.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
Year Inhabitants 1841 10,025 1871 11,456 1881 14,681 1891 18,357 1901 21,382 1911 22,990 1921 25,857 1931 26,948 1951 34,731 1961 38,638
- A Grammer School was built on Leicester road and originally founded in 1495.
- An Upper Girls' School was built here in Recotry road.
- Hickling's Girls' School was built in Ashby Road.
- The Convent of the Sisters of the Institute of Charity (Rosminian), commonly called the Sisters of Providence, with a boarding school for young ladies and a day school, was in Park road.
- Warner's Church of England School was built before 1881.
- Three additional schools were built in Churchgate.
- The Loughborough Technical Institute was opened in 1909. There followed a period of rapid expansion during which the institute was renamed Loughborough College and the development of the present campus began. During World War I, the institute served as an 'instructional factory', training workers for the munitions industry. In 1966, the College of Advanced Technology as it had then become, received university status. In March 2013, the university announced it had acquired the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which opened as a second campus in 2015. Today Loughborough College provides vocational and advanced education to the community.
The Loughborough Group of the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society holds regular meetings. In addition, a number of coach trips are organised.