Bodington Hall
53°50′40″N 1°35′15″W / 53.8444°N 1.5876°WCoordinates: 53°50′40″N 1°35′15″W / 53.8444°N 1.5876°W
Bodington Hall is a site owned by the University of Leeds, which contains the university's main playing fields and its largest hall of residence.[1] It is also used for conferences.[2] Known as Bod within the university, it is located between Lawnswood and Adel, approximately 4 mi north of the main campus. Bodington is used mainly to house first year undergraduate students. Out of term, it is used for conferences and sporting activities such as WorldNET, the Internet Football Association's annual tournament.[3]
The site opened in October 1961,[4] and was completed by 1963.[5] It was named after Sir Nathan Bodington, the first Vice Chancellor of the university.[6]
In November 2007, the University Council made the decision to sell Bodington Hall in the next four years, as the accommodation is in need of refurbishment and replace it with accommodation closer to the university campus.[7]
It has been announced by Leeds University, that Bodington Hall will be officially shut down in January 2013.
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[edit] Accommodation
Bodington has 640 single study bedrooms and 100 self-catering flats each of 5 bedrooms with shared facilities.[8][9]
[edit] List of houses
[edit] Catered[10]
- Barbier
- Centre Barbier
- Clapham
- Grant
- Hey
- Mortain
- Seton
- Vaughan
- Woodsley
[edit] Self-Catering[10]
(renamed in 1999 after former members of University staff[11]
- Bragg
- Evans
- Lattimore
- Mackey
- McClurkin
- Walsh
- Whewell
[edit] Facilities
The site's sports facilities include squash courts, and football and rugby fields. There is a dining room on the site with a capacity of 350. Other facilities include a games room, music room, ATM (often referred to as Bod Bank), computer cluster, Bod Shop and the Bod Bar.
[edit] Transport
Bodington is served by irregular bus services to the University of Leeds Main Campus, Weetwood, Headingley, Hyde Park Corner, Leeds city centre & Leeds City Railway Station on Route 95 during Term Time (every 10 minutes Daily (07:00-23:30 M-S, 10:40-23:20 Sun), every 15–30 minutes 00:00-03:30), operated by First Leeds. Routes 1 (every 10 minutes Monday-Saturday, every 30 minutes Evenings & Sundays) and X84 (every 15 minutes Monday-Saturday, every 30 minutes Evenings & Sundays) also serve the area but do not go into the site, these services run along Otley Road (the main road to the West of the site). It offers more car parking spaces per student compared to many other University of Leeds accommodation. Bodington was proposed to be a terminus of the now cancelled Leeds Supertram, and a park and ride would have been built on part of the site.[12] An extension of the route was proposed to continue to Holt Park. More recently, West Yorkshire Metro has proposed a trolleybus service for the route.[13]
[edit] References
- ^ University of Leeds Accommodation
- ^ Meet in Leeds - Bodington Hall
- ^ WorldNET 2009
- ^ Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display
- ^ http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sports/documents/campus_walks/historical_timeline.ppt
- ^ Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds - Display
- ^ Campusweb | On the campus news item
- ^ Meet in Leeds Bodington Hall
- ^ Leeds University Accommodation Bodington Hall
- ^ a b Leeds Accommodation Your Bod
- ^ Leeds Reporter 24 May 1999
- ^ http://www.wypta.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/897FE849-D9E0-4713-8DCB-DF4C6C10BAB2/0/DEWG2NOVEMBER2006ITEM5.pdf
- ^ http://www.wymetro.com/News/070614-2.htm
