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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 modern gym hosts a whole range of equipment including
Campus facilities include a restaurant, café, sports pitches and a nine-foot climbing wall, weight and cardiovascular machines,
our Sports and Wellbeing Centre. The Buttery is our Students’ as well as a full range of dumbbells, kettle balls, power bags
Union bar at Hawkshead, offering live sport and music. 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
We have planted a series of mini meadows with dozens of multitude of sports, including badminton, indoor football, hockey,
native trees to enhance biodiversity and support to native birds cricket, basketball, volleyball and many more. The SAWC is free
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 provides social areas across the ground floor explore the countryside.
of the new Student Learning Centre.
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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