Eton, a town in the south of Buckinghamshire, on the left bank of the Thames, 21 miles WSW. of London. It lies opposite to Windsor, in Berkshire, and is included in its parliamentary borough. Eton chiefly consists of one long street, and is mainly dependent on the college. Pop. (1881) 3464; (1891) 2499, at which date the school had first reached the number of 1000 pupils.
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