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Loughborough Fair

Every year on the first Wednesday on or after 7 November, for 4 days · All day

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Free — Rides are paid

Sets off from

Devonshire Square

The fair fills the Market Place and the surrounding streets. The Mayor reads the proclamation and opens the fair at about 17:00 on the Wednesday at the gallopers in Devonshire Square.

Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3DW
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About

Henry III granted Loughborough its first fair charter in 1221, and the November fair has run for more than 800 years. Rides and stalls take over the town centre streets for four days, opened by the Mayor with the reading of the old proclamation.

Website
discovercharnwood.co.uk/loughborough-fair

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