University Of Nottingham Halls Of Residence
This is a list of halls of residence on the various campuses of the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England.
The University of Nottingham has a particularly well developed system of halls located on its campus. The halls acts a microcosms of the university at large and provide a community-level forum for the interaction of undergraduates, postgraduates and senior academics.
The halls are generally named either after counties, districts, or places in the English East Midlands (Nottingham having been originally conceived as a regional university for this area) or significant people associated with the university. Lenton, Lincoln, Derby, Rutland, Sherwood, Newark, Southwell, Ancaster and Melton halls fall into the former category, Hugh Stewart, Cripps, Cavendish, Nightingale, Florence Boot, Wortley, and Willoughby into the latter.
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