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Stowe House

            How the other half… Attached to Stowe landscape gardens is Stowe House, in which resides Stowe School, founded in 1923. The building is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust, which has spent more than £25m on restoring the house. 

The property is a 17th century country house, with alterations and additions taking place over the next century until 1779. The children who are educated here enjoy life in magnificent surroundings, the like of which they’re never likely to encounter again. 

Mind you, this independent school for the well-heeled doesn’t come cheap: fees for day pupils are £8,530 per term or, if parents want their little treasures to board there, £11,685. The building is frequently open to the public, and the school’s cricket ground is of such high quality that it’s used by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club.

Two former pupils – called ‘Old Stoics’, by the way – won the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy: Major John Anderson and his close friend Group Captain Leonard Cheshire (who later founded the Cheshire Homes for the disabled).

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Stowe School (show map)

Taken on: September 20, 2017

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Camera: Canon EOS 100D, f/6.3, 1/125 sec, 55mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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