Trent Park
The Trent Park campus was closed in the summer of 2012 and all of its programmes were moved to the universities flagship campus in Hendon. This campus was set within a 413-acre (1.67 km2) country park, which was originally a fourteenth-century hunting ground of Henry IV. The focus of the campus was a palatial mansion, designed by Sir William Chambers in the 18th century. After the Second World War, the Ministry of Education used the house as an emergency teacher training centre, which became a residential teacher training college, called Trent Park College of Education in 1951. In 1974 the college was incorporated into Middlesex Polytechnic.
In 2012 around 16% of Middlesex students were based at Trent Park campus. The university’s Summer School, which accounts for .2% of Middlesex students, also took place here.
The university had ambitious plans to redevelop the site, but they were twice rejected by Enfield Council on environmental concerns. In 2011, the university announced the closure of Trent Park campus, with relocation of its courses to Hendon in 2012.
Subject focus: Dance, drama and performing arts, English language and literature, media, culture and communication, music, theatre arts, languages and translation studies, product design, Teaching and education. It is also home to the Flood Hazard Research Centre, which moved here when Enfield campus closed in July 2008.
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