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University of Kent

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Exhibition CentreConference CentreAcademicTraining Centre
1200 capacity
14 meeting rooms

About the venue

The University of Kent is set in 450 acres of parkland overlooking the historic city of Canterbury.

Over 20 lecture theatres, 150 breakout rooms, exhibition space, accommodation for 4250, a choice of restaurants/bars and extensive leisure facilities. Both single standard and en-suite bedrooms are available during the spring and summer vacation periods. During the summer months, there are also 96 double en-suite bedrooms and 5/6 single bedroom self-catering houses and flats. Darwin Conference Suite is available for meetings All Year Round. With its moveable sound proofed walls, the suite is available as one large area for up to 210 or as three smaller suites for up to 70. Winner of the Group Travel Organiser 'Best University Accommodation for Groups' for the past 5 years.

Location

Nearest motorwayA2/M 2
Nearest junctionJ7
Nearest stationCanterbury West
Nearest airportGatwick

Parking

On-site parkingFree
Parking spaces1000
Parking nearbyNo

Meeting rooms

In the table below, you can hover over the underlined room names to see a photo of that room.

Room name
Capacity (people)
Theatre
Classroom
Boardroom
Cabaret
Banquet
Ushape
Rec.
Dimensions(H/L/W/A)
Sports Hall 1/2
1200
800
100
800
-
120
-
-/-/-/-
Keynes LT1
370
-
-
-
-
-
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond LT1
200
-
-
-
-
-
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond LT2
150
-
-
-
-
-
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond LT3
100
-
-
-
-
-
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 3
30
21
24
-
-
24
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 4
30
21
24
-
-
20
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 5
30
21
24
-
-
20
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 6
30
21
24
-
-
20
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 7
30
21
24
-
-
20
-
-/-/-/-
Grimond Seminar 8
30
21
24
-
-
20
-
-/-/-/-
Woolf LT
475
-
-
-
-
-
-
-/-/-/-
Darwin
350
200
80
125
200
80
-
-/-/-/-
Eliot
500
300
70
300
400
90
-
-/-/-/-

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