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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . . . . . AND STUDENT LIFE

LIFE ON CAMPUS HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Our 230-hectare self-contained Hawkshead Campus sits in the The Sports and Wellbeing Centre (SAWC) at the Hawkshead
picturesque countryside of Hertfordshire. Our award-winning Campus boasts impressive facilities for RVC staff and students.
student village provides a home from home. Hawkshead Our state-of-the-art gym hosts a whole range of equipment
campus facilities include a restaurant, café, sports pitches and including a nine-foot climbing wall, weight and cardiovascular
our Sports and Wellbeing Centre. The Buttery is our Student machines, as well as a full range of dumbbells, kettle balls, power
Union bar at Hawkshead. It also offers live sport and music. bags and much more.

Our dance and aerobics studio hosts most of our classes
SOCIAL SPACES including Zumba, Yoga and Pilates. The sports hall can host a
Outside we have planted a series of mini meadows with multitude of sports including badminton, indoor football, hockey,
dozens of native trees to enhance biodiversity and support cricket, basketball, volleyball and many more. The SAWC is free
to native birds and pollinators.
to use and is open seven days a week.
There is an abundance of communal space where you can
socialise and relax as well as social learning spaces outside of STUDENT LIVING IN HERTFORDSHIRE
the classrooms, labs and lecture theatres. Hertfordshire has some fantastic cycle and footpaths, allowing
you to travel easily to neighbouring towns and villages, or to
A new, double-height atrium expanded café and garden room
exhibition space will provide social areas across the ground explore the countryside.
floor of the new development.
Getting in and around Potters Bar and the surrounding area is made
simple by a number of public transport routes serving nearby bus
and train stations. Potters Bar train station offers frequent trains
to London King’s Cross. The RVC runs a free regular shuttle bus
from Potters Bar train and bus station to the Hawkshead Campus.

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