TEMPLATE

Title

Uni Logo Origins of Lancaster University


In November 1961 the Government announced that the new university of the North-West was to be at Lancaster after fierce comptetition from all parts of the country.

New universities had been announced at Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Kent, Warwick and York. The siting of the university of Lancaster solved the problem of the large area of the country between the Mersey and the Clyde left without a university

.Alexandra Square

The Beginning

The first batch of 330 students were admitted in October 1964. They travelled each day from digs and flats in Morecambe to the University's temporary base at St Leonard's House, a converted Waring and Gillow warehouse in the centre of the city.


 

Today students live in residencies situated in the nine collleges:

  • Bowland
  • Cartmel
  • County
  • Furness
  • Fylde
  • Grizedale
    • Lonsdale College
    • Pendle College
    • The Graduate College

 

Lancaster University


Home

Top of page

 

Governance and Planning
Tel: 01524 592166