Lonsdale College, Lancaster

Lonsdale College is a constituent college of Lancaster University. It was one of the two founding colleges, originally built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of Junior Common Room membership, with over 1,900 undergraduates. Like most other colleges in the university, the college is named after a region of the traditional county of Lancashire. The college takes its name from the Lonsdale area, the valley of the River Lune. The college is not to be confused with the fictional Lonsdale College, Oxford which is attended by Inspector Morse in Endeavour based on the novels by Colin Dexter, However, Morse studied at St John's College, Oxford in the novels and the original series. Members of Lonsdale are referred to as Lonsdelians.