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Collingwood College
Collingwood College in England North East, United Kingdom.
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About
Collingwood College is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Collingwood College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University. Founded in 1972, it was the first Durham college that was purposely mixed-sex. It has over 1500 undergraduate students and just under 290 graduate students as of the year 2023/24, making it the largest college in Durham. The college is the first to break off centuries of Durham traditions, as it is the first college to never police corridors and to never make the use of gown compulsory. The college also developed a reputation for its unrivalled supremacy in sports, having won the intercollegiate sports trophy for 11 years in a row. The college was named after the mathematician Sir Edward Collingwood (1900–1970), who was a former Chair of the Council of Durham University.
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Background
History
Plans for Collingwood began in 1960, as part of a programme of expansion that included both Van Mildert College and Trevelyan College. By 1962 it was determined that the new college was to be built on the site of Oswald House, with Richard Sheppard (architect of Churchill College, Cambridge) being appointed the following year. The remnants of the Oswald House estate can be seen in the landscaped grounds and mature trees that surround the college. Over the following years a series of funding issues and debates over the student composition of the new college meant that building on the site did not begin until August 1971. It was determined that the new college should be called Collingwood…
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- Coordinates
- 54.7628, -1.5761
- Established
- 1972
Sources
- wikidata: Q5147297 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Collingwood College, Durham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Collingwood College?
- Collingwood College is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7628°, -1.5761°.
- When was Collingwood College built?
- Collingwood College dates to 1972.