Radley, a Berkshire village, near the right bank of the Thames, 5 miles S. of Oxford. The Bowyers' seat here was in 1847 converted by Professor W. Sewell into a High Church public school—St Peter's College—for 130 boarders. It has a fine chapel.
Radley
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 549
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