Student accommodation in Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield's Queensgate campus is built along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a few minutes from the bus station and the market, which means the campus and the town are effectively the same place. Most of what follows is within a twenty minute walk of a lecture theatre. What the map does not show is that the town sits in a bowl in the Pennines, so almost every one of those walks is uphill in one direction.

The town centre around Queensgate and the canal holds most of the purpose-built blocks and puts you across the road from teaching, the station and the Lawrence Batley Theatre. Marsh is the traditional student area, up the hill to the west along Westbourne Road, with shared houses and a fifteen minute walk down. Edgerton sits beside it and is the handsome end, large Victorian villas and higher rents. Lindley is further out past the hospital with its own small high street. Newsome and Almondbury are south and east on higher ground, cheaper, with better views and a longer climb home. Fartown and Birkby are north, the least expensive here, and well served by buses.