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Bodington Hall

Bodington Hall is a site owned by the University of Leeds, which contains the university's main playing fields and what was its largest hall of residence.

Connaught Hall, London

Connaught Hall was established in 1919 by HRH Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn — the third son of Queen Victoria — at 18 Torrington Square, London as a men-only private hall of residence; the Hall was intended as a memorial to the Duchess of Connaught who died in 1917.

Singer Motors

The site of the Singer factory in Coventry is now occupied by Singer Hall, a hall of residence for Coventry University.

St Gabriel's Hall

St Gabriel's Hall (commonly known as "Gabs") is a small and friendly all-female hall of residence belonging to The University of Manchester.


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Ashburne Hall

Ashburne Hall was founded in 1900 by Samuel Alexander, R. D. Darbishire, C. P. Scott and Alice B. Cooke as a hall of residence for women students.

Barnes Wallis Building

The 15 storey high-rise part of the structure is called Wright Robinson Hall, and is a student hall of residence.

Brinsford

Brinsford Lodge, a former hall of residence for The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton (now the University of Wolverhampton)

Brinsford Lodge

Brinsford Lodge was a hall of residence for The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton (now the University of Wolverhampton) from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.

Buddhadeb Bosu

While studying at the Dhaka University he was elected as the literary secretary of the students' association of his hall of residence, namely the Jagannath Hall.

Carrington College

Carrington College, Otago, a hall of residence at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Connaught Hall

Connaught Hall, London — a University of London intercollegiate hall of residence in Tavistock Square, London WC1

Knox College

Knox College, Otago, a hall of residence and school of ministry at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Lala Lajpat Rai

Lajpat Nagar and Lajpat Nagar Central Market in New Delhi, Lajpat Rai Market in Chandani Chowk, Delhi; Lala Lajpat Rai Hall of Residence at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Kharagpur; as well as the Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology(LLRIET), Moga, are named in his honor.

Norman Matthews

He was curate of St Dyfrig, Cardiff from 1927 to 1935 before becoming the first Warden of St Teilo's Hall of Residence at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, also serving as Llandaff Diocesan Missioner from 1936 to 1940.

Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall

Sir Shah Sulaimn Hall (सर शाह सुलेमान हॉल,سر شاہ سلیمان ہال) is a Hall of Residence for the Students of Aligarh Muslim University(AMU), India.

St Margaret's College

St Margaret's College, Otago, hall of residence of the University of Otago, New Zealand

St. Anselm Hall

St Anselm Hall (or "Slem's" as it is known to most students as a result of a misprint or 'typo' that appeared in The Manchester Guardian) is a hall of residence in the Victoria Park campus of the University of Manchester.

Tetley Hall

Tetley Hall was a catered hall of residence located in Headingley at the University of Leeds, England.

Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Dublin, hall of residence of the University of Dublin, Trinity College

William Hulme

In 1881 the Charity Commissioners empowered the trust to use its funds to establish two schools – one in Manchester (William Hulme's Grammar School) and one in Oldham (Hulme Grammar School), and to fund new buildings for an existing school (Bury Grammar School) – as well as a hall of residence for Anglican students (in Owens College, then the only constituent college of the University of Manchester).

Winnall, Hampshire

It is the location of the Winnall Moors nature reserve on the flood-plain of the Itchen and the University of Southampton's Erasmus Park hall of residence.