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 competition from all parts of the county.
New universities had been announced at Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Kent, Warwick and York. The siting of the University at Lancaster solved the problem of the large area of the country between the Mersey and the Clyde left without a university.
The Beginning
The first batch of 330 students were admitted in October 1964. They traveled 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 residences situated in the nine colleges:
- Bowland
- Cartmel
- County
- Furness
- Fylde
- Grizedale
- Lonsdale College
- Pendle College
- The Graduate College