Westwood (Campus)
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Westwood is one of three campuses of the University of Warwick
(The other two being the main campus and Gibbet Hill
).
, a restaurant/cafe, laundrette, small Costcutter shop and other buildings used for teaching purposes. All the buildings are set amongst a leafy backdrop of trees which makes Westwood campus very picturesque in summer. To the west of the campus is a sports centre with many facilities including several pitches, a running track and a multi-purpose hall. It takes roughly 15 minutes to walk from Westwood to the centre of main campus at a brisk pace. Many of the buildings are closer and can be reached in approximately 10 minutes at a brisk pace. It takes a little under 5 minutes to walk to Tesco and the nearby Cannon Park
shopping centre
.
and gas pipes and are thus blocked off for safety reasons. As of 2007 washing machine
s and dryers were installed in all the Westwood blocks. Previously all of Westwood campus were sharing 4 machines in a separate washing building.
The halls of residence are all named after local locations:
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
(The other two being the main campus and Gibbet Hill
Gibbet Hill
Gibbet Hill is the location of, and name for the University of Warwick's southern campus, based close to the outskirts of Coventry, in the West Midlands, England....
).
Description
It is a triangular shaped campus bordered by the houses on Charter Avenue and by Gibbet Hill Road,located to the north of the main campus. It contains several halls of residenceDormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
, a restaurant/cafe, laundrette, small Costcutter shop and other buildings used for teaching purposes. All the buildings are set amongst a leafy backdrop of trees which makes Westwood campus very picturesque in summer. To the west of the campus is a sports centre with many facilities including several pitches, a running track and a multi-purpose hall. It takes roughly 15 minutes to walk from Westwood to the centre of main campus at a brisk pace. Many of the buildings are closer and can be reached in approximately 10 minutes at a brisk pace. It takes a little under 5 minutes to walk to Tesco and the nearby Cannon Park
Cannon Park
Cannon Park is a suburb in the southwest of the City of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It can be accessed via the major roads Kenpas Highway or Kenilworth Road. The area has a sizable shopping centre of the same name which features food stores, shops and eateries...
shopping centre
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
.
History
The site was originally the Canley College of Education until its merger with the University in the mid-seventies.Halls of Residence
The eight Halls of Residence have large rooms and so tend to be used by the admissions department at the start of the year to house students who have to share, should a shortage of rooms on campus arise. It is rumoured amongst students that there are tunnels connecting the four smaller halls, accessed via a false floor in the central storage cupboard on each ground floor landing. The tunnels do in fact exist but contain several central heatingCentral heating
A central heating system provides warmth to the whole interior of a building from one point to multiple rooms. When combined with other systems in order to control the building climate, the whole system may be a HVAC system.Central heating differs from local heating in that the heat generation...
and gas pipes and are thus blocked off for safety reasons. As of 2007 washing machine
Washing machine
A washing machine is a machine designed to wash laundry, such as clothing, towels and sheets...
s and dryers were installed in all the Westwood blocks. Previously all of Westwood campus were sharing 4 machines in a separate washing building.
The halls of residence are all named after local locations:
- Bericote
- Compton
- Dunsmere
- Emscote
- Gosford
- Hampton
- Knightcote
- Loxley