Bailrigg

Bailrigg
Bailrigg
Bailrigg shown within Lancashire
OS grid reference	SD4858
District	City of Lancaster
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANCASTER
Postcode district	LA1, LA2
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Lancaster and Fleetwood
List of places UK England Lancashire 54°01′N 2°47′W / 54.01°N 2.79°W / 54.01; -2.79Coordinates: 54°01′N 2°47′W / 54.01°N 2.79°W / 54.01; -2.79

Bailrigg is the campus of Lancaster University, in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The student radio station Bailrigg FM is named after the site.

Bailrigg is a 200-acre (0.312 sq mi; 0.809 km²) site donated by Lancaster City Council in 1963. The purpose-built campus buildings are located on a hilltop, the lower slopes of which are landscaped parkland which includes the "Carter Lake" duckpond and the university playing fields. The site is three miles (5 km) south of the city centre. The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as "The Spine". The walkway runs from north to south and is covered for most of its length.

The main architect was Gabriel Epstein of Shepheard and Epstein. On a barren hilltop on a windswept day in 1963 the two architectural partners surveyed the future site of the university, Peter Shepheard recalled that day:

On the 2nd January 2017, it was announced that Bailrigg was to become one of 14 new garden villages in England.

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