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University Park is very much in the English landscape style,
with rolling grassland, many trees, shrubs and water features.
An adjoining lake divides it from Highfields Park, which is
managed by Nottingham City Council.
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Water features fountains are set among boulders.
Next to the plaza between the
The park is richly endowed with Pope Building and Engineering
water features. At the South Science Learning Centre is a
Entrance an informal lake has multiple fountain in a rectangular
marginal plantings and a large pool.
floating fountain.
Outside the Centre for
The Millennium Garden includes a Biomolecular Sciences there is a
circular pond with an island and 12 formal pond with a geyser fountain
fountains that ‘tell the time’. Nearby and nearby a series of three pools
a small dew pond acts as a natural with cascades and a fountain. To
pond for wildlife. the south west is a chain cascade
outside the Humanities Building.
Formal ponds with fountains
elsewhere include the Chemistry
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Lakeside Walk
This 1¼-mile circular walk the sandstone cliffs, passing the
joins University Park with caves and linking with paths to
Highfields Park. It is suitable for Highfields Park at the island.
wheelchair users and inclines are
signposted. Highfields has a playground
and in summer boats can be
The path skirts the water’s edge, hired on the lake. The walk
climbs above cliffs giving views rejoins University land at the DH
of the lake, passes across the Lawrence Pavilion, Lakeside Arts
stone terrace in front of the Trent Centre, where a cafe is open
Building and then drops beneath seven days a week.
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Tree Walk
Our Tree Walk as a world
tour in less than an hour!
You’ll see trees from
Europe, the Mediterranean,
Morocco, USA, China, Japan,
Himalayas, North Africa and
Chile. It is amazing that plants
from so many areas, different
climates and soils thrive here
at University Park.
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road The campus is designed to
Nottingham harmonise buildings and landscape
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t: 0115 951 5151 and to encourage wildlife. A
series of lakes provide cooling
Development of University Park for buildings and absorb storm
threatened its beautiful green water. Trees and shrubs are well The lakes at Jubilee Campus are a haven for wildlife.
landscape and the University established and wildflowers grow
decided to build a new campus on the grassy mounds behind
nearby, on the former home of the the lakes. Waterfowl including Sutton Bonington Campus
Raleigh bicycle factory. The derelict mallards, swans, coots, moorhens, Sutton Bonington arboretum. Of particular interest
site lacked trees and even soil, geese and herons breed on the Leicestershire is the lime avenue alongside
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of a narrow band of land containing green roofs, planted with a carpet commemorates those lost in the
mature trees provided a backdrop of alpine plants, to help maintain Whereas University Park and First World War. There is said to
to the development. building temperatures. Jubilee are green oases in the city, be a ‘Queen’s shilling’ buried under
there is also much to enjoy in the each tree.
Jubilee Campus is an exemplar of Phase II of the Jubilee Campus
rural setting of Sutton Bonington
brownfield regeneration and has includes new buildings across A Diamond Wood was planted on
Campus.
impeccable green credentials. Triumph Road, and a paved University land near the campus to
The campus was opened in boulevard linking the two sites. This 40-acre site is home to mark the Queen’s Jubilee.
October 1999 by Her Majesty the An avenue of 60 new Sophora land-based sciences such as
Queen and has received many japonica, fountains and another Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Food For maps and directions, visit
awards, including the Millennium lake will enhance the scheme. Sciences and the Veterinary nott.ac.uk/sutton
Marque Award for Environmental School.
For maps and directions, visit
Excellence and the Royal Institute
nott.ac.uk/jubilee
of British Architects (RIBA) Journal The campus has a wide variety
Sustainability Award. of plantings, including a small
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