Cartmel College is a

residential college A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship ...

Lancaster University Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...

, England and was founded in 1968. It is named after the

Cartmel Peninsula Cartmel Peninsula is a peninsula in Cumbria in England. It juts in a southerly direction into Morecambe Bay, bordered by the estuaries of the River Leven to the west and the River Winster to the east. It is, along with the Furness Peninsula, ( ...

of "Lancashire north of the sands" which was once known as ''The Land of Cartmel''. The college buildings were originally sited at the north end of the university's Bailrigg

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and extended in 1969. In 2004, the college was relocated around Barker House Farm in a new development in the southwest of the campus called ''Alexandra Park''.

History

Cartmel college residences were opened in 1968. The Cartmel building was designed by the Manchester-based architect, Haydyn Smith. Smith designed the college in such a way as to expose it to as much natural light as possible. The college was also dominated by a number of large, multi-purpose grassed areas that were very popular during the warmer months. Extra residences were built in 1969 to cope with the expanding student population.

Relocation

In 2003 Cartmel’s College Syndicate decided to embrace the university’s offer to relocate the college down to south west campus with brand new entirely en-suite accommodation and new facilities and college offices. After some negotiation it was decided that Cartmel would take the refurbished ''Barker House Farm complex'' as the centre of their college. The farm houses the college offices, porters lodge, bar and Junior Common Room, with the accommodation built around it. Along with Lonsdale and Fylde, Cartmel is one of only three Lancaster colleges to have entirely en-suite accommodation.

Names of residence blocks

The residence are all named after villages on the Cartmel peninsula: * Bigland * Braystones * Broughton *

Cark Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite (and to the A590 road) and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands. It is ...

* Dalehead *

Flookburgh Flookburgh is an ancient village on the Cartmel peninsula in Cumbria, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and being close to Morecambe Bay, cockle and shrimp fishing plays a big part in village life. Flookbur ...

Grange Grange may refer to: Buildings * Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906 * Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682 * The Grange (Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, built in 1817 * Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to ...

Haverthwaite Haverthwaite is a small village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. It is also within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. The village is 7 km or 4.5 miles NE of Ulverston and 5 k ...

* Holker * Lindale *

Meathop Meathop is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is located north east of Grange over Sands, between the confluence of the River Kent estuary and the River Winster on the edg ...

Governance

The College is established under the Statutes of the University. Internally, the key committees which run the College are ''College Council'', ''College Management'' and ''College Syndicate''. ''College Management'' is an informal committee of College Officers which meets every alternate week to keep abreast of day-to-day matters to do with the running of the college. ''College Council'' meetings alternate with ''College Management''. ''College Council'' consists of College Officers and the JCR executive and is, essentially, the body which concerns general policy of the college. College Syndicate meets much less often and consists of all SCR members and some JCR representatives. Its main responsibility is to decide matters of major policy affecting the College. The College is represented by the Principal on Senate, as is the JCR through various student representative bodies. College affairs come under a Pro Vice Chancellor of Colleges, who oversees the general conduct of the Colleges, including the appointment of College Officers, the setting of budgets and so on.

Junior Common Room Executive

The JCR Executive represents Cartmel students on various Student Union bodies, including LUSU Council, Social Committees, Welfare Committees, Communications Committees & Sports Committees. The 2023 JCR executive is led by Harrison Stewart (President), Amelia Entwistle (Vice President).

Symbolism

The college colours are

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and

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, or officially, ''stone'' and ''plonk''. The college emblem is the

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. The college pose is the Ertz.

Facilities

Cartmel College's facilities on campus include 2 large projection screens, a large bar area, study room, food court and a Junior Common Room which houses 3 pool tables, DJ booth, darts boards, air hockey table, table tennis equipment, table football and a 40" Plasma Television complete with PS4, DVD player, Freeview and Laptop connection. The whole Barker house complex and all residences have wireless internet throughout.

Notable alumni

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, Actress *

Simon Danczuk Simon Christopher Danczuk ( ; born 24 October 1966) is a British author and former Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the constituency of Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency), Rochdale between 2010 ...

, Former MP for Rochdale * Suzanne Evans, Former Deputy Chairman of the

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* Andrew Ford, Composer * Theresa Griffin, Former MEP for North West England *

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, Comedian and musician * Janni Howker, Writer of teenage fiction *

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, MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood *

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, Mayor of

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References

External links

Cartmel College
{{Lancaster University Colleges of Lancaster University Cartmel College, Lancaster