Eton College, Provost's, Fellows' and Luxmore's garden, Windsor, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. 

15th century and later school courts, gardens and park incorporating playing fields.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Eton College occupies the north side of the town of Eton, adjacent to the north bank of the River Thames. The largely level, about 18 hectare site is bounded to the north by the B3026 Pocock's Lane linking Eton with Datchet, and to the west by the B3022 Slough to Windsor Road, part of which forms the north end of Eton High Street. The west boundary is marked at the northern end by a brick wall, incorporated within the remains of Fifteen Arch Bridge standing about 150 metres north of the main buildings, to the west of which lie further playing fields and college buildings. The south boundary is marked by village buildings, that to the east being formed by the north bank of the River Thames. The setting is partly rural, to the north-west and east, with views north over Agar's Plough towards the M4 and beyond this the urban centre of Slough. Views also extend east over the river and the long, narrow Romney Island to the northern tip of Windsor Home Park. The college is directly overlooked by Windsor Castle and its terrace, standing about 1 kilometre south of the site on a commanding promontory.

REFERENCES

Loggan, Cantabrigia Illustrata (1690)

R Willis and J W Clark, Architectural History of the University of Cambridge 4, (1886), fig 16

Country Life, 4 (10 December 1898), pp 715-¿18; 48 (4 December 1920), pp 740-7; (11 December 1920), pp 784-5; 50 (3 December 1921), pp 730-8; (10 December 1921), pp 786-93

Victoria History of the County of Buckinghamshire 3, (1969), pp 267-74

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), pp 298-319

Maps

W Collier, Plan of the town and castle of Windsor and Little-Park, town and college of Eton, 1742 (Royal Collection)

J Rocque, Map of Berkshire, 1761

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1883

    1938 edition

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1912

Description written: November 1998

Amended: March 2000

Edited: March 2000