Grizedale College

Grizedale College
The Grizedale Boar
University	University of Lancaster
Motto	Never Forget
Established	1975
Named for	Grizedale Forest
Principal	Patrick Montague
JCR president	Molly McDonough
Undergraduates	1124
Website	Grizedale College Grizedale JCR

Grizedale College is a college of the University of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. The college is named after the Grizedale Forest area of Lancashire North of the Sands. When it was built it was situated at the southern extremity of the Bailrigg campus. The development of the south west campus has meant that college is now considered to be one of the more centrally located colleges. It is currently the fifth largest in terms of number of students.

Grizedale was one of the last colleges to be built on the Bailrigg campus in 1974. It initially shared accommodation and administration with Pendle College. Grizedale was in the old 'E' Block and Pendle in the old 'J' block. This arrangement continued until Grizedale took over 'J Block' in 1993, and new accommodation to the south of Grizedale, originally intended for Grizedale itself, was completed for Pendle in 1994.

The Grizedale boar was only recently inaugurated as the college mascot. Originally, Depravo the rat, a character invented by Michael Palin in his book ‘Bert Fegg's Nasty book for boys and girls’, represented the college. An early member of college staff was friendly with Mr Palin who granted the College the rights to the character and Depravo the Rat became Grizedale’s mascot. The boar became the second mascot in the late 1980s when a number of parents questioned the relevance of Depravo and the Grizedale boar was created. Since 2000 the boar has become the main mascot of the college, although the bar still retained the name 'Depravos' until it was demolished in 2007.

The original college accommodation 'E' and 'J' blocks were demolished in summer 2006. Problems with other building projects on campus meant that the site of the former buildings laid vacant for almost all of the 2006/07 academic year. As a result of these delays college students were housed in other buildings around campus including Pendle's George Fox Building, Pendle Main, Graduate College and Bowland Tower. The new buildings were finally completed in time for Michaelmas term of the 2008/09 academic year. These new buildings are composed of 12 person townhouses and 6 person apartments as opposed to the corridor block arrangements of the original accommodation.