Eton Montem

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Eton Montem was a custom formerly observed, every three years by the boys of Eton school. They would proceed on Whit Tuesday ad montem (to a mound called Salt Hill, also known as Montem Mound), near the Bath Road in Slough, Berkshire, and exact a gratuity called salt from all who passed by. Sometimes as much as £1,000 was thus collected.

The custom was abolished in 1847.

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