Illustration of the Upper School and Long Walk from Common Lane House. Behind the three limes is the gate of Westons Yard. To the right of it is Mr Gaffneys Lodge, where the Provosts stables once stood. On the extreme right is the lamp-post known as the Burning Bush. On the extreme left, where the New Schools are now, was once Bethells house, where Shelley boarded. Watercolour by Edith Danvers Brinton from Eton by Christopher Reynolds Stone, published in 1909. Eton College is a public school in Berkshire, UK. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name Kynges College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore.