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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . . . . . AND STUDENT LIFE

LIFE ON CAMPUS HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Our 575-acre 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. Campus facilities Our gym hosts a whole range of equipment including a nine-foot
include a restaurant, café, sports pitches and our Sports and climbing wall, weight and cardiovascular machines, as well as a full
Wellbeing Centre. The Buttery is our Students’ Union bar at range of dumbbells, kettlebells, power bags and much more.
Hawkshead, offering live sport and music.
Our dance and aerobics studio hosts most of our classes,
including Zumba, Yoga and Pilates. The sports hall can host a
SOCIAL SPACES multitude of sports, including badminton, indoor football, hockey,
We have planted a series of mini meadows with dozens of cricket, basketball, volleyball and many more. The SAWC is free
native trees to enhance biodiversity and support to native birds to use and is open seven days a week.
and pollinators.

There is an abundance of communal space, where you can STUDENT LIVING IN HERTFORDSHIRE
socialise and relax, as well as social learning spaces outside of Hertfordshire has some fantastic cycle and footpaths, allowing
the classrooms, labs and lecture theatres. you to travel easily to neighbouring towns and villages, or to
explore the countryside.
A new, double-height atrium, expanded café and garden room
exhibition space provides social areas across the ground floor
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, which is just a 20 minute train journey away.
The RVC runs a free regular shuttle bus from Potters Bar train and
bus station to the Hawkshead Campus.

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