The Long Walk

Most visitors to Windsor Castle enter from the gate in the town of Windsor and don't get to see this spectacular entrance, known as the long walk. Stretching 3 miles from the castle to the copper statue of King George III on a horse.
Originally lined on each side by 1652 elm trees, these are gone now, having fallen victim to dutch elm disease. An inquiry and lots of meetings to discuss the problem (sound familiar?) and then, nearly 50 years after the elms had died an agreement was finally reached, and the horse chestnut trees were planted in a widened walk.

The Clock Tower

Now a park surrounded by a housing estate. Originally this square was a cattle market. Built in 1855. Try and imagine it with 15,000 animals here, a slaughter house just up the road. A nice tea house and a pub on each corner with imaginative names like: the lion, the lamb, the white horse and the black bull.