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Crossing the bridge at the end of Thames Avenue in Windsor town brings
you to Eton , a one-street village lined with bookshops and
antique dealers, but famous all over the world for Eton College ,
a ten-minute walk from the river. When the school was founded in 1440,
its aim was to give free education to seventy poor scholars and
choristers; how times have changed.
The
original fifteenth-century schoolroom , gnarled with centuries of
graffiti, survives , but the real highlight is the College
Chapel , completed in 1482, a wonderful example of English
Perpendicular architecture. The self-congratulatory Museum of Eton
Life , where you're deposited at the end of the tour, is well worth
missing unless you have a fascination with flogging, fagging and
bragging about the school's facilities and alumni.
College
and chapel: Easter, July & Aug daily 10.30am-4.30pm; after Easter to
June & Sept daily 2-4.30pm; £2.70; guided tours daily 2.15pm & 3.15pm;
£4; www.etoncollege.com.
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