Venue: George Fox
CAD 2026 will be held on the ground floor of the George Fox building on Lancaster University’s Bailrigg Campus. You can view the George Fox rooms and the building more broadly using MazeMap, which functions much like Google Maps but with additional information such as the locations of visitor parking, EV charging points, stairs/lifts and toilets. You can use MazeMap to create directions for yourself to help find the building/room from wherever you are on campus.
The live version of this map (on MazeMap) can be accessed at: https://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&config=lancaster&campusid=341&zlevel=1¢er=-2.784445,54.007405&zoom=19.5&sharepoitype=poi&sharepoi=1000463124
Navigating campus
Please see the main University website for campus maps and other information for visitors.
Accessibility
To find out the most accessible routes on campus, you can use AccessAble. This website allows you to check for accessible parking, toilets, lifts and a range of other important features on campus.
North/South campus spines and getting to George Fox
As the map in the PDF below shows, Lancaster University campus has a North Spine and a South Spine that runs across the campus. You can access both of these from Alexandra Square (highlighted in the below map in yellow), the central point of the campus, which has stairs/a lift to access the Underpass beneath it. We recommend getting buses to and from the campus using the Underpass (see ‘getting to Lancaster by bus’ on the Travel and Accommodation page for more information).
Facilities on campus
You can find all of the campus outlets (shops, pharmacy, cafés, etc.) here.
Some of the options on campus include (but are by no means limited to):
- Barkers (Cartmel College) – Barkers is an old farm house, serving classic pub grub along with Starbucks coffee.
- Coastal & Co – a local family business that sells ethical coffee, cold drinks, toasties, cakes and pastries (vegan and gluten free available), waffles and local ice-cream.
- Café Republic – this offers tea, coffee and cakes and shares a space with Pizzetta Republic
- Chains: Costa Coffee, Greggs, Subway
- The Deli – this offers homemade healthy food, cakes and coffee/tea.
- Guan Zi Restaurant – this is a Chinese restaurant selling a variety of Asian cuisines. It’s handily located in the George Fox building!
- Grizedale bar – this is Lancaster University’s on-campus cocktail bar, located in Grizedale College.
- JuiCafe – a specialist coffee bar, with award winning smoothies, luxury milkshakes, fresh daily soups made in store and a wide range of vegan and gluten free options.
- KC’s African & Caribbean Cuisine – you can see their Instagram page here.
- Sultan of Lancaster Experience – a food outlet that specialises in grilled foods (such as sizzlers, steak and shawarma) and serves a wide variety of curry dishes.
Shops include:
- Co-Op
- Spar
- Wong’s Oriental Mart
- ReStore Lancaster (which sells sustainable items, clothes and hosts the university’s Post Office)
Other facilities include:
- a campus pharmacy with experts in medicine to help you with minor health concerns (open 11am-7pm Monday to Friday).
- garage (Bailrigg Motors) offering fuel, car sales, car hire, MOTs, servicing and breakdown recovery
- a range of Lancaster Arts galleries – see here for more.
- a hair salon (Unique Hair Salon)
- beauty salon (Diamond Hair & Beauty)
Nature on campus
Our 578-acre campus is situated in green parkland and has received the Green Flag award for the fourteenth year in a row – the international benchmark for the quality of green spaces.
There are more than 25,000 trees and 6.5 miles worth of hedgerows on our campus. The 150-year-old woodland surrounding campus is home to a 2.6-mile Woodland Walk trail, which has multiple entry points around campus. So if you get the chance, do go for a stroll and explore!