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North Haugh is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3405°, -2.8110°.

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North Haugh

North Haugh in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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North Haugh is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The North Haugh is an area in the northwestern part of the town of St Andrews in Scotland, and the location of the North Haugh campus of the University of St Andrews. The area's location near the Swilken Burn (stream) may be the origin of the name, as haugh is a Scots word meaning a low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

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The development of the North Haugh campus began in 1960s during a major expansion of the University of St Andrews. Today it is a principal location of the natural sciences buildings and laboratories, including Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Medicine and the School of Management. The campus also includes university's biggest student residence halls–Agnes Blackadder Hall, Powell Hall, and Andrew Melville Hall. The first building on the North Haugh campus was Andrew Melville Hall, designed by James Stirling and constructed in 1964–1967. It was the first of the initially planned four residence halls to the same design to be built on the campus, but the three others…

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