In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Fairhurst 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Adrian Stott wrote:
>> There is a story that one of the colleges (can't remember which) at
>> one time had so much real estate that you could walk from Oxford to
>> the east coast without stepping of its land (excluding when you
>> crossed roads, I assume).
>
>I'd heard that of Trinity College, Cambridge, but it may be an urban myth.

That's what was said when I attended in the 70's, but that was before 
urban myths were invented so it must be true.

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