Our campuses and directions
Our Greenlands campus, Henley-on-Thames
Home to our Executive Education, DBA and MBA programmes.
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Records indicate that there has been a house on our Greenlands site for 500 years, although the house would have originally been much closer to the river.
Greenlands has been home to a series of notable families and individuals throughout its lifetime. These include Thomas Chaucer, son of William Chaucer; Robert D'Oyley, Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1573; Bulstrode Whitelock, Oliver Cromwell's Ambassador to Sweden and most recently WH Smith, who bought the existing house in 1871. Queen Elizabeth I is also known to have visited on more than one occasion, most likely when staying at her royal palace in Reading.
The site became the home of a new Administrative Staff College in 1946, first welcoming students in 1948. In 1952, after the unexpected death of Viscount Hambleden from whom the College leased the site, an opportunity to purchase Greenlands' 30 acres arose. The College was renamed Henley Management College in 1991, and following a recent merger with the University of Reading became Henley Business School on 01 August, 2008. The world-ranked Henley MBA, our MPhil and DBA courses and our leading corporate learning offering are delivered at Greenlands.
Our Whiteknights campus, Reading
Home to our undergraduate degree, postgraduate masters and PhD programmes.
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In 1947 the University of Reading purchased its main Whiteknights campus, the former country estate of the Marquis of Blandford. A peaceful 130 hectare country estate, with its conservation meadows, rare tree collection and large lake, is an exceptional place to study, live and work. It provides a natural habitat for many varieties of birds, animals, insects and plants.
Several listed buildings are features of the campus. One of the most attractive is Foxhill House, built in 1869 by architect Alfred Waterhouse, designer of the Natural History Museum.
Henley Business School's undergraduate, postgraduate taught and PhD courses are delivered from our Whiteknights campus. Our new state-of-the-art building opens in 2009, and represents the largest single construction project in the University of Reading's history. Its designers, BDP, boast impressive credentials, having previously masterplanned projects including a redevelopment of the Royal Albert Hall, the Channel Tunnel Terminal and Sydney's Olympic facilities.