Editing University of Bath (section)

===Main campus===
The university's main campus is located on [[Claverton Down]],<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Bath, Claverton Down campus |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/locations/university-of-bath-claverton-down-campus/ |publisher=University of Bath}}</ref> approximately 1.5 miles from the centre of Bath. The site is compact; it is possible to walk from one end to the other in fifteen minutes. The design involved the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, with road traffic on the ground floors and pedestrians on a raised central thoroughfare, known as the Parade. Buildings would line the parade and student residences built on tower blocks rise from the central thoroughfare. Such plans were mostly followed.

At the centre of the campus is the Library, a facility open round the clock offering computing services, information and research assistance as well as books and journals. A number of outlets are housed around the parade, including restaurants, bars and fast-food cafés and two small supermarkets, as well as academic blocks. Building names are based on their location and distance vis-à-vis the library (e.g. 1 East, 2 East). Odd-numbered buildings are on the same side of the parade as the Library, and even-numbered buildings are on the opposite side.

Buildings along the east–west axis are mostly directly accessible from the parade, which is generally considered to be "level two", but later additions, such as 7 West, 9 West, 3 West North and 8 East, follow the rule less strictly. 7 West is generally accessible only via 5 West or 9 West, and 3 West North, 9 West and 8 East have entrances at ground level at varying distances from the main parade. Buildings on the south of the campus, 1 South to 4 South, are accessible via roads and pedestrian walkways by the university lake and gardens.

Buildings, as in many of the so-called [[Plate Glass University | plate glass universities]], were constructed in a functional modernist style using concrete, although such designs were later derided for lacking the charm of the [[Victorian architecture | Victorian]] [[Red Brick university | red-brick universities]] or the [[Ancient Universities | ancient and medieval]] ones. In Bath, there is a particular contrast between the concrete campus and the [[Georgian architecture | Georgian style]] architecture of the [[World Heritage Site | World Heritage City]] of Bath.

The eastern part of the campus is dominated by the Sports Training Village, built in 1992 and enhanced in 2003 with an extension.

The northern perimeter of the university is bounded by student residences Brendon Court, Eastwood, Marlborough Court, Solsbury Court, Norwood House, Osborne House, Polden Court, The Quads, Westwood, and Woodland Court. The original plan for students to be housed in tower blocks above the parade continues with the small number of rooms (110) in Norwood House. However, the second tower block, Wessex House, now hosts offices rather than residences.

The university also owns buildings in the city of Bath, mostly student accommodation dotted around town, including Canal Wharf, Carpenter House, Clevelands Building, John Wood Building and John Wood Court, Pulteney Court and Thornbank Gardens.

There is also an Innovation Centre that provides work space, practical support and expertise to local technology enterprises and entrepreneurial companies that emerge from the university's student and academic research base

Two new buildings were opened in 2017. The Virgil Building, adapted from a former police station, offers a hub and support for students and staff in the centre of Bath, including professional, counselling and careers services, Joblink, a skills centre and learning commons. The university also opened a centre at 83 Pall Mall in central London, with a stated aim of building partnerships and engaging with business, politics and Bath's alumni community in the UK's capital.

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Over several years, the grounds have received recognition for their outstanding beauty with awards from Bath in Bloom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/environmentandplanning/parksandopenspaces/Bath+in+Bloom+Competition.htm |title=Bath in Bloom Competition |publisher=BANES Council |access-date=14 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503163545/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/environmentandplanning/parksandopenspaces/Bath%2Bin%2BBloom%2BCompetition.htm |archive-date= 3 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>