Greenlands is a country house on the banks of the River Thames. Built in the nineteenth century, the Grade II-listed building now forms the core of the Greenlands Campus at the University of Reading, and is used by their Henley Business School.

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May 13, 2018

Greenlands Lodge, as it was once known, is a Grade II listed building. It was a country house with a number of prestigious owners including Thomas Chaucer, son of Geoffrey Chaucer. The house was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. In 1868, it was bought by William Henry Smith, son of the founder of W H Smith. He extended the building, though its appearance received a cool reception from Jerome K. Jerome who joked in his book ‘Three Men in a Boat’ that it was ‘the rather uninteresting-looking river residence of my newsagent'. In 1946, the building was rented to the Administrative Staff College. In 1952, the house was bought by the College and renamed Henley Management College. In 2008 it merged with the Business School of the University of Reading, to form the new Henley Business School.

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Location: Hambleden, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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