h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A campus university just outside the city centre. The campus is mostly pedestrianised and even has corridors in the air. The longest of these is the Red Route, which is on level 10 (because of the hill the uni is on you can enter the Red Route at ground level, but lower down you're about five storeys up. Level 1 or even level 0 may possibly exist somewhere in the medical department at the bottom of the hill). The branch of the Red Route that goes into the EC Stoner Building (that's computing and physics) has a large kink, with a Coke machine forlornly attempting to disguise it.

Thanks, Bagpuss!

Corridors in the air?! What's the atmosphere like? Leeds is a lovely city - it's all so new; it must have seemed like an entirely different place 20 years ago.

Foundation: Initially part of Victoria University, which was a federal institution set up in 1880 with sites in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. Manchester and Liverpool wanted to leave to form their own universities and so in 1904, King Edward VII granted the University of Leeds a charter as an independent body.

Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/

Students' union: http://www.luuonline.com/

Impressive list of famous alumni:

Er...Mark Byford, the BBC's Director General , Jack Straw, Clare Short and Mark Knopfler.

Atmosphere? Friendly and fairly relaxed I think. I'm terrible at describing things like that.

Yep, corridors in the air. Sometimes held up by great big stilts.

Must think of more stuff to write.