The University website has a huge amount of information about Highfield campus and the university more generally. This page shows some highlights: IT, food and drink, main facilities and maps.

IT AND WIFI

The university is part of the Eduroam system for free Wifi. If you do not use Eduroam, then choose Wifi Guest from the available networks.

On the ground floor of the University’s Hartley Library, there is a café and some PCs. You do not need a library card to access this area. The Hartley Library is on the other side of University Road from the gym and the Nuffield Theatre. It is easy to find.

FOOD AND DRINK

There are several foot outlets on the main Highfield campus as well as a shop and several pubs and bars. There is also a Costa coffee on the northern edge of the campus on Burgess Road. Burgess Road itself has a number of shops and takeaways. Portswood High Street has a wider range of sit-in restaurants, ice-cream parlours and bars. The Crown Inn is within easy walking distance of the campus and serves very basic meals. The Brewhouse on Highfield Lane is a more upmarket micro-brewery. If you wish to walk across Southampton Common, you can go to the Cowherd’s Pub. This has real fires and gastro-pub food. In town, Oxford Street has a wide range of restaurants. There is also another microbrewery called the Dancing Man. It is situated in a medieval building near to the docks. There is a vegetarian/vegan restaurant called Indian Melody in the centre of town.

CAMPUS MAP

The campus has a gym and swimming pool; a theatre; an art gallery; a concert hall; prayer facilities; doctors and a pharmacy. There are also shops which sell a range of stationery and other items. On the northern edge of the campus next to Burgess Road there is a Post Office, banks, a Costa coffee, a bookshop/general stationery shop and a pub called the Style. There is a Co-op on Burgess Road (head east) and two large supermarkets on Portswood High Street (head south on University Road, south down Church Lane, then turn left). There is a cash machine located outside the SUSU shop. The SUSU shop, the Stag’s Head pub and various other catering outlets are all located around a piazza next to the gym and (more or less) opposite the library. It is a compact campus so everything is nearby.

LARGER MAP SHOWING HIGHFIELD CAMPUS

PARKING

Parking is often difficult in the Highfield Campus area. You can park anywhere on campus at the weekends. During the week, it is more difficult. The university’s parking policy can be reviewed here. Otherwise, the various hotels have parking facilities and it is easier to walk or take the bus.