Ushaw College, a former Catholic seminary and Licensed Hall of Residence of the University of Durham, covers 400 acres in the village of Ushaw Moor in the UK. It was founded in 1808 by scholars from English College, Douai, who had fled France after that college had been closed during the French Revolution. Ushaw College had been affiliated with the University of Durham since 1968 and shut in 2011 due to a shortage of vocations in the Catholic Church. The buildings and grounds are now occupied and maintained by the Ushaw charitable trust, and Durham University Business School will be using the buildings from April 2012 for two years, whilst its own site is redeveloped.
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