Introduction
In July, having survived a visit from the baby, we (parents and I) were supposed to go on a walk with it in Windsor. But for some reason I can't recall, the baby or its minders couldn't make it - so we went for a walk anyway.
River
The first part of our walk was by the river. We crossed the bridge to Eton and walked along the footpath for some distance.
Near the Eton boathouse there's a church by the river. It's now disused but is looked after by the 'Friends of Friendless Churches' charity. I took a few pictures.
The Thames Path goes over an impressive bridge which I assumed was entirely new, but it's actually built over a conveyor bridge for old gravel workings. We crossed the bridge briefly to have a look, then came back and sat under it to eat our lunch.
Land
After that we left the river and headed back by footpaths over land. To begin with, we didn't visit a nearby stately home (I don't think it was open) but we had a look at their church and bought ice creams in their garden centre.
There followed a quite long walk past the newish rowing lake (we think they probably don't like it being called a 'boating lake'), also owned by Eton; it's apparently going to be an Olympic venue. There were some people rowing but whatever. After passing an inexplicable horde of what looked like mostly East Asian schoolkids (why there? I have no idea) our route took us back through farmland into the village of Eton.
