Sutton Bonington Campus is the site of the School of Biosciences of the University of Nottingham, England. The campus is a 160,000 m² site situated in a rural location near Sutton Bonington village, about ten miles south of the University's main University Park Campus. The campus contains research buildings and teaching facilities, along with several halls of residence, including Bonington Hall, which accommodates around 300 students. A 16 km² (400 acre) farm, University Farm is also attached to the site.

The Campus has basic shopping and recreational facilities including a small student shop selling staple goods and University souvenirs; a tiny coffee / burger bar (The Mulberry Tree); a larger (attractively designed) refectory serving cafeteria-style hot food; a small private function room (oak room) for 10-20 people; a very smoky, sticky and claustrophobic alcoholic bar-area, and a non-smoking area linked to the bar (The hexagon - currently fully occupied for vet school meetings); a bank; and a bookshop (~10 bookcases). For a realistic comparison - think small cross-channel ferry and halve the floor space for all these areas. Outside of undergraduate term-time, most of these facilities are either closed or severely restricted to MSc/PhD students and staff. The campus now (June 2006) also has a cashpoint.

Sports facilities include a tiny gym and a reasonably sized sports hall. External sports facilities are relatively spacious and run alongside the University between the main road and the railway line.

Parking on campus is quite easy, especially compared to University park or Jubilee campus (or the notoriously 'unparkable' QMC). Travel to Nottingham is facilitated by a free shuttle bus between the distant and more central campuses. These reduce in frequency and lateness quite drastically out of the undergraduate term, so MSc / PhD students living on campus will find life quite isolated without a car or a good friend with one. Car travel to and from the campus will normally be against the notorious bottleneck of travel between the M1 and the city which comes to a virtual standstill INTO Nottingham in the morning and OUT of Nottingham in the evening. A proposed road widening over the next few years may help to reduce this congestion. There is no train station nearby, the closest are at Loughborough or Nottingham (20-30 mins by taxi). The Airport (NEMA) is very close and is increasing its range of destinations.

The School of Biosciences consists of five divisions including Plant Sciences, Food Sciences, Animal Physiology, Nutritional Biochemistry, and Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

This campus is also to be the main site of the University's new veterinary school. This is currently (2006) being built and has triggered the long awaited return of a cash-machine to the site (removed c2001) and an extension of opening hours for the on-site shop.

The campus was formerly the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College before merging with the university in 1947. The site was used as a prisoner of war camp during the First World War¹. It was from here that a group of 21 German Officers, led by Captain Karl von Müller, escaped through an underground tunnel dug from one of the huts. 15 tons of soil are said to have been removed and hidden under the tiers of a lecture room. All but one of the prisoners were recaptured.

The Sutton Bonington Campus is the home of the Sutton Bonington Student Guild, an association of the University of Nottingham Students' Union. All officers of the 'SB Guild' are non-sabbatical and elected annually by show of hands.

External link

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• University of Nottingham Biosciences

University of Nottingham

References

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1. Sutton Bonington Local History Society 1982, Discovering Sutton Bonington Past and Present, ISBN 0 9508309 0 9 Veterinary schools