Bodington Hall

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Bodington Hall is the largest halls of accommodation that are owned by the University of Leeds. Known as Bod within the university it is located approximately 4 miles from the main campus. Bodington is mainly reserved for undergraduate first year students. It is named after Sir Nathan Bodington, the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Leeds (1904 - 1910). Famous residents include Dr Harold Shipman, best known as a serial killer, housed in Clapham House.

The center block of Bodington Hall taken while on the bus.

Bodington houses 700 catered students and 500 self-catered students. It is organised into a series of houses each containing up to 80 students. Catered students are on a 31 week contract which runs through each term while self-catered students have a 39 week contract covering the Christmas and Easter breaks also.

The facilities include a games room, music room, squash courts, small shop, football and rugby fields and the Bod Bar.

1 Houses
2 Events and Activities
3 Bod Bar
4 Bodington Newsletter
5 External links

[edit] Houses

Bragg
Barbier
Clapham
Evans
Grant
Lattimore
Mackey - Blocks K, L and M
McClurkin
Mortain
Seton
Vaughan
Walsh
Woodsley
Whewell
Horlicks

[edit] Events and Activities

There are many different events and activities that take place in and around Bodington Hall. Two main ones are the two balls each year. The first of these takes place at the end of the first term before Christmas and the second takes place in March. Each house also has two formal dinners per year. There are other activities, such as inter-house sports competitions, gigs in the Bod Bar (see below) and house pub crawls.

[edit] Bod Bar

The Bod Bar is the on-site bar. It opens between 7:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., except for certain sporting events in which it may open earlier and/or stay open later. Many events are hosted here, such as themed parties (Halloween, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day etc.) the (now defunct) "cinema" and gigs.