Accomodation at Lancaster University (Accommodation in general)

Name: Nakor

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Product:	Accommodation in general
Date:	20/08/00 (145 review reads)
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Advantages: Very friendly atmosphere

Disadvantages: A bus ride away from town for shopping, clubbing etc.

Lancaster University is a campus university, with the campus set about 2 miles outside the city of Lancaster on a hill. All first years are guaranteed accomodation on campus, and a substantial number of third years return to live on campus.
Accomodation at Lancaster is based around a collegiate system: there are 9 colleges each of them with their own bar! The colleges vary in quality, some are quite old, some modern. Graduate college is for graduates only. Pendle college is the most modern of the colleges, with 8 people to a corridor, sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities. Security wise because each corridor is lockable and not accessible from any other corridor. George Fox, which is a part of Pendle, is en-suite, therefore more expensive, and has a more open access corridor plan (people can get from one corridor to another easily). Grizedale, Fylde and Furness have slightly longer corridors and are somewhat older, Furness having the advantage of being quite close to the centre of the uni though. Bowland is probably the closest to the centre, near the main lecture theatres as well as the shops, post office etc. Along with Lonsdale they are the oldest colleges, and are very open access. Each corridor has about 10 people on it, but any of the 80 or so people on the same floor can get onto your corridor and potentially steal your food. Nevertheless I like Bowland and think it's a nice friendly college. Cartmel I don't know much about, it's similar to Furness It think. And finally County bar. It's on the other end of campus to Pendle, and it one of the oldest colleges, with 20 odd to a kitchen. The college has good character though and a very lively bar.

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