Herefordshire College is one of the best further education campuses in the UK, offering outstanding learning facilities; including specialist workshops, training salons, professional kitchens and a extensive Learning Resource Centre. Holme Lacy Campus, only six miles out of Hereford, offers an attractive range of specialist land-based courses and boasts a 257 hectare country estate, which includes an arable, beef and sheep farm; woodlands; orchards and lakes. It is also home to an Animal Care Unit, Equestrian Centre and a Rural Crafts Centre; where the likes of blacksmithing, farriery and welding courses take place. Ludlow College provides an excellent choice of A Levels for school leavers. Students enjoy being part of an academically rigorous and friendly Sixth Form College where they learn in small groups and benefit from high levels of personal support. Many progress to Russell Group and other highly ranked universities. Ludlow College offers excellent modern learning facilities provided in superb buildings, which date from the middle ages to the 21st century. North Shropshire College consists of campuses at Oswestry and Walford; the Oswestry Campus in North Shropshire offers an exciting, modern campus on a shared site with the superb, purpose-built Oswestry Leisure Centre. The Oswestry Campus has top of the range facilities including a restaurant for both professional teaching and commercial use, and a dedicated Hair & Beauty Salon. The Learning Resource Centre has recently been updated with state-of-the-art ICT facilities and has a friendly student focus. The Walford Campus offers some of the best land-based facilities in the region and the extensive grounds include mature woodlands, new tree plantations, fishing pools and a rough game shoot. It is home to an Animal Care Centre with specialist facilities to cater for 100 different species of animals, as well as an Equestrian Centre, Engineering Centre, a working farm and sports facilities.