Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or even the College of St. Peter at Radley, is a public school near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. The school covers 800 acres including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the counties of England were re-organised, the school was in Berkshire.
South front of Radley Hall – the "Mansion" – with part of the school's main corridor to the right
West front and spire of the College Chapel
Radley College Boat House on the Thames
Public school (United Kingdom)
In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. They are "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession; nor are they run for the profit of a private owner.
The playing fields of Rugby School, 1567, reestablished 1828. The rules of rugby football were codified here in 1845.
View of the old Norman Staircase and scholars, King's School Canterbury, lithograph by William Harvey, 1851
A bird's eye view of Eton College, founded 1440, by David Loggan, published in his Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1690
Cheltenham College, 1841