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Eton Excelsior Rowing Club

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Location
  
Bray, Berkshire

Affiliations
  
British Rowing

Home water
  
River Thames

Founded
  
1821 (1821)

Established
  
1821

Eton Excelsior Rowing Club

Website
  
www.etonexcelsiorrowingclub.org

Address
  
14 Maidenhead Rd, Windsor SL4 5TY, UK

Eton Excelsior Rowing Club is a rowing club, on the River Thames in England. It is on the Berkshire bank of the Thames at Bray, Berkshire, on the reach above Boveney Lock. The club was founded as an intermittent club in 1821 and formally established in 1851.

The club is the nearest club to the residents of Bray, Windsor, Slough and Eton and is an open rowing club for men, women, adults, juniors and veterans. It is affiliated to British Rowing. The club's colours are navy, amber and white. The club hosts an annual "clubs and pubs regatta".

Boathouse

The club’s original boat house was in King Stable Street in Eton, Berkshire, close to Windsor Bridge. The site was leased from Eton College for 150 years but in the mid-1990s, the College decided to build on the site and the club had to find a new home. For five years the club rented rack space from Eton College at Andrew’s Boat House (also used by the Army) just upstream from Boveney Lock. The club eventually found the present site which was split with Wraysbury Skiff and Punting Club who were also looking for a new site at the time. Wraysbury were able to stay at their existing site and withdrew. Construction was completed in 2001 and Eton Excelsior moved in in September that year.

References

Eton Excelsior Rowing Club Wikipedia