Kingsgate Bridge. The Racecourse has university playing fields, including the main cricket ground. While no colleges are based in the Elvet area, it does contain the Parson's Field accommodation for St Cuthbert's Society and Hatfield College's James Barber House and Palmer's Garth accommodation.
==== Leazes Road ====
The Leazes Road site on the north bank of the Wear, opposite the Racecourse playing fields and Old Elvet, was home to the School of Education and Hild Bede College. As of 2024, this site is being redeveloped and refurbished with the aim that a 19th college will be established adjacent to Hild Bede. In preparation for redevelopment, departments and facilities were relocated from Leazes Road in 2022, and Hild Bede college moved temporarily to Rushford Court in the viaduct area in summer 2024. UPP were announced in May 2024 as the preferred bidders to deliver the refurbishment of Hild Bede and the building of the new 19th college under a design, build, fund and operate model.
==== Mountjoy ====
The Mountjoy site (formerly the Science site) south of Elvet contains many of the university's departments, including all of the departments in the faculty of science and most of the departments in the faculty of social science and health. It is also home to the university's central administration, in the Palatine Centre, the main Bill Bryson Library, and central teaching facilities at the Calman Learning Centre and the Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre.
==== Elvet Hill ====
Elvet Hill, south of the Mountjoy site, has ten of the colleges as well as the Botanic Garden and the vice-chancellor's residence in Hollingside House. It is also home to the Business School and the department of Government and International Affairs, as well as the Teikyo University of Japan in Durham and the Oriental Museum.
==== Elsewhere in Durham ====
Ustinov College, Durham's postgraduate college, is located in Sheraton Park, beyond Elvet Hill. Rushford Court, owned by Unite Students, is the temporary home of Hild Bede …
