Trinity College's Riches
As the wealthiest of all Oxbridge colleges, Trinity College is naturally the subject of many rumours and popular urban legends. The college is sometimes suggested to be the second, third or fourth wealthiest landowner in the UK (or in England) — after the Crown Estate, the National Trust and the Church of England. (A variant of this legend is repeated in the Tom Sharpe novel Porterhouse Blue.) In 2005, it was reported that the college takes in £20 million plus per year in rent from its properties. In comparison, the National Trust received about £42.6 million in rental income from its properties in 2005-06.
A second legend is that it is possible to walk from Cambridge to Oxford on land solely owned by Trinity. Jeremy Fairbrother, the college's senior bursar in 2005, has said this belief is incorrect.
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