Bath Spa University College (Newton Park Campus)

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History

The institution can trace its roots back to 1898. It was formed as Bath College of Higher Education by the merger of two colleges in 1975. In 1992, the college was granted its own degree-awarding powers and adopted its current name in 1999. In spring 2005, it was announced that Bath Spa University College will become a university on August 1, 2005 and will use the title Bath Spa University. 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Campuses

There are around 4,500 students and two campuses, at Newton Park and Sion Hill. The former campus, located four miles to the west of Bath, is leased from the Duchy of Cornwall. It has grounds that were landscaped by Capability Brown and a concert hall, The Michael Tippett Centre, at the Newton Park campus, near the village of Newton St. Loe. The smaller campus (Sion Hill) is located in Bath and includes a listed Georgian crescent. The Duchy of Cornwall is one of the two Royal duchies in the United Kingdom (the other being the Duchy of Lancaster). ... Lancelot Brown ( 1716 - 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, now remembered as the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due, and Englands greatest gardener. He designed over 200 parks, many of which still endure. ...

External links

• Bath Spa University College (http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/)
• Bath Spa University College Students' Union (http://www.bathspasu.co.uk/)