We visited Winchester last weekend to meet up with some friends and a have a good old chinwag (and a nice lunch!) but before we settled into our chosen restaurant we thought it was a good idea to have a brisk walk around the town. While on said walk I came across this building in one of the side streets, I wondered what a "Wykehamist" was, none of my fellow perambulaters knew either so I had to "Google it". Apparently a Wykehamist is a past or present member of Winchester College (which was just up the road) this makes complete sense when you know that the college was founded in 1382 by "William of Wykeham" as a feeder school for New College, Oxford! I guess a couple of the old boys who liked "home-ed" decided to branch out, good luck to them!
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