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London Road Campus of the University of Reading is the original campus of that university. It is on the London Road, immediately to the south of Reading town centre in the English county of Berkshire. The site for the campus was given to the university in 1904 by the Palmer family, owners of Reading's Huntley & Palmers biscuit makers.
The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading , a University of Oxford extension college. [ 7 ] The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V and was the only university to receive such a ...
The site first opened for teaching in 1964 as Bulmershe College. That merged with the University of Reading in 1989 to create the Bulmershe Court campus. It closed in 2012 and all its activities were moved to either the London Road Campus or Whiteknights Park. In December 2013, the site was acquired for a residential development.
The University of Reading purchased Whiteknights Park in 1947, [8] and today it is the home of the university's administration, most of the academic departments and six halls of residence. The halls of residence (Bridges, Childs, MacKinder, Stenton, Windsor, and Wessex) are all along Whiteknights Road and Upper Redlands Road sides of the campus ...
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It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College (formerly the Administrative Staff College) with the existing business school of the University of Reading. As a result of the merger it now occupies two sites: Greenlands Campus , near the town of Henley-on-Thames , the original site of the Henley Management College ...
Wantage Hall, built 1908, is the oldest hall of residence at the University of Reading, in Reading, England. The hall is one of 13 belonging to the University and is close to Whiteknights Campus. It is designated a grade II listed building, a status given for its special architectural or historic interest. [1]
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