Loughborough is a large market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. Is 59,933 inhabitants in the 2011 census were estimated at 67,956 in 2019, as the county's second largest settlement. It is close to the Nottinghamshire border and at short distances from Leicester, Nottingham, East Midlands Airport and Derby. It has the world's largest bell foundry, John Taylor Bellfounders, which made bells for the Carillon War Memorial, a landmark in the Queens Park in the town, of Great Paul for St Paul's Cathedral, and for York Minster.