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id="toc-Crime-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1)" title="سلاو (باركشير) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سلاو (باركشير)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="اسلاو، اینگیلیس – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اسلاو، اینگیلیس" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83" title="Слау – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Слау" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83" title="Слау – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Слау" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_(kapital_sa_kondado)" title="Slough (kapital sa kondado) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Slough (kapital sa kondado)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%8C_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="اسلاو، انگلستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسلاو، انگلستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%AC%EB%9D%BC%EC%9A%B0" title="슬라우 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="슬라우" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B8%D6%82" title="Սլաու – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սլաու" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A3" title="სლაუ – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სლაუ" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slau" title="Slau – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Slau" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slau" title="Slau – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Slau" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88" title="سلاو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سلاو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6" title="スラウ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スラウ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" title="Slough – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Slough" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough" 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style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div style="height:133px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_town_centre.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Slough_town_centre.png/250px-Slough_town_centre.png" decoding="async" width="238" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Slough_town_centre.png/500px-Slough_town_centre.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:109px;max-width:109px"><div style="height:71px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Mary%27s_Church,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg/107px-St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="107" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg/161px-St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg/214px-St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:71px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Town_Hall,_19_Bath_Road,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg/250px-Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg/330px-Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4828" data-file-height="2715" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:109px;max-width:109px"><div style="height:71px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_(geograph_5257312).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg/107px-Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="107" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg/161px-Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg/214px-Slough_-_Uxbridge_Road_Gas_Works_%28geograph_5257312%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5704" data-file-height="3803" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div style="height:71px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Queensmere_Shopping_Centre,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg/250px-Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg/330px-Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1795" data-file-height="1009" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:138px;max-width:138px"><div style="height:91px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:High_Street,_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2733446.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/High_Street%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2733446.jpg/250px-High_Street%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2733446.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/High_Street%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2733446.jpg/330px-High_Street%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2733446.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="856" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:100px;max-width:100px"><div style="height:91px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tower_of_Our_Lady_Immaculate_%5E_St_Ethelbert_Catholic_Church,_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3459586.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Tower_of_Our_Lady_Immaculate_%5E_St_Ethelbert_Catholic_Church%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3459586.jpg/120px-Tower_of_Our_Lady_Immaculate_%5E_St_Ethelbert_Catholic_Church%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3459586.jpg" decoding="async" width="98" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Tower_of_Our_Lady_Immaculate_%5E_St_Ethelbert_Catholic_Church%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3459586.jpg/250px-Tower_of_Our_Lady_Immaculate_%5E_St_Ethelbert_Catholic_Church%2C_Slough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3459586.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="746" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div style="height:209px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_View_of_Slough_Trading_Estate.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Aerial_View_of_Slough_Trading_Estate.JPG/250px-Aerial_View_of_Slough_Trading_Estate.JPG" decoding="async" width="238" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Aerial_View_of_Slough_Trading_Estate.JPG/500px-Aerial_View_of_Slough_Trading_Estate.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="1152" data-file-height="1014" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div>From top, left to right: Slough skyline, <a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Parish_Church,_Slough" title="St Mary's Parish Church, Slough">St Mary's Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slough_Town_Hall" title="Slough Town Hall">Old Town Hall</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Slough_Gas_Works&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slough Gas Works (page does not exist)">Gas Works</a> and surrounding area, Queensmere Shopping Centre, High Street, <a href="/wiki/St_Ethelbert%27s_Church,_Slough" title="St Ethelbert's Church, Slough">St Ethelbert's Church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slough_Trading_Estate" title="Slough Trading Estate">Slough Trading Estate</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od 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style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Slough is located in Berkshire"><img alt="Slough is located in Berkshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg/240px-Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg/480px-Berkshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="741" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:21.476%;left:89.051%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Slough"><img alt="Slough" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Slough</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">11.71 sq mi (30.3 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">143,184 (2021 Census)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">Density</a></th><td class="infobox-data">12,227/sq mi (4,721/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Unitary authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Slough" title="Borough of Slough">Slough</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">Shire county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_East_England" title="South East England">South East</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">SLOUGH</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SL_postcode_area" title="SL postcode area">SL1–SL3</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01753</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Slough (UK Parliament constituency)">Slough</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slough.gov.uk/">slough<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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<dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Berkshire" title="List of places in Berkshire">Berkshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Slough&params=51.508392_N_0.58810504_W_region:GB_type:city(143184)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°30′30″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°35′17″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.508392°N 0.58810504°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.508392; -0.58810504</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Slough</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/aʊ/: 'ou' in 'mouth'">aʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>) is a town in <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>, England, in the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley" title="Thames Valley">Thames Valley</a>, 20 miles (32 km) west of central <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>, at the intersection of the <a href="/wiki/M4_motorway" title="M4 motorway">M4</a>, <a href="/wiki/M40_motorway" title="M40 motorway">M40</a> and <a href="/wiki/M25_motorway" title="M25 motorway">M25</a> motorways. It is part of the <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic county</a> of <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, the population of the town was 143,184.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wider <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Slough" title="Borough of Slough">Borough of Slough</a> had a population of 158,500.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Slough" title="Demographics of Slough">Slough's population</a> is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attracting people from across the country and the world for labour since the 1920s, which has helped shape it into a major trading centre. In 2017, unemployment stood at 1.4%,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one-third the UK average of 4.5%.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Slough has the highest concentration of UK <a href="/wiki/Headquarters" title="Headquarters">HQs</a> of global companies outside London. <a href="/wiki/Slough_Trading_Estate" title="Slough Trading Estate">Slough Trading Estate</a> is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe, with over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited" title="BlackBerry Limited">Blackberry</a>, <a href="/wiki/McAfee" title="McAfee">McAfee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burger_King" title="Burger King">Burger King</a>, <a href="/wiki/DHL" title="DHL">DHL</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telefonica" class="mw-redirect" title="Telefonica">Telefonica</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lego" title="Lego">Lego</a> have head offices in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Slough" title="History of Slough">History of Slough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cippenham_Moat" title="Cippenham Moat">Cippenham Moat</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:6664_at_Slough,_October_1955.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg/250px-6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg/330px-6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg/500px-6664_at_Slough%2C_October_1955.jpg 2x" data-file-width="632" data-file-height="427" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Former <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">GWR</a> locomotive <a href="/wiki/GWR_5600_Class" title="GWR 5600 Class">6664</a> photographed near the engine shed at Slough, October 1955</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg/250px-Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg/330px-Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg/500px-Slough_bus_station_berkshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="1040" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The Brunel bus station and car park, opened in 1975<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has now been demolished as work has started on the Heart of Slough project.<sup id="cite_ref-sloughobserver.co.uk_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sloughobserver.co.uk-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Slough_Library.jpg/250px-Slough_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Slough_Library.jpg/330px-Slough_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Slough_Library.jpg/500px-Slough_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3870" data-file-height="2063" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Robert Taylor Library</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg/250px-1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg/330px-1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg/500px-1978_Suters_album_scan0007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="986" data-file-height="671" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Suters Limited in Slough High Street, 1978</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The name was first recorded in 1195 as <i>Slo</i>. It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between <a href="/wiki/Upton,_Slough" title="Upton, Slough">Upton</a> to the east and <a href="/wiki/Chalvey" title="Chalvey">Chalvey</a> to the west, roughly around the "Crown Crossroads" where the road to Windsor (now the A332) met the Great West Road.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday</a> Survey of 1086 refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. During the 13th century, King <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> had a palace at Cippenham. Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325, while St Mary the Virgin Church<sup id="cite_ref-stmarythevirgin_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stmarythevirgin-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Langley,_Berkshire" title="Langley, Berkshire">Langley</a> was probably built in the late 11th or early 12th century, though it has been rebuilt and enlarged several times. </p><p>From the mid-17th century, <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach" title="Stagecoach">stagecoaches</a> began to pass through Slough and <a href="/wiki/Salt_Hill" title="Salt Hill">Salt Hill</a> (later absorbed into Slough), which became locations for the second stage to change horses on the journey out from London. By 1838 and the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a>, Upton-cum-Chalvey's parish <a href="/wiki/Population_of_Slough" class="mw-redirect" title="Population of Slough">population</a> had reached 1,502. In 1849, a <a href="/wiki/Slough_to_Windsor_%26_Eton_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slough to Windsor & Eton Line">branch line</a> was completed from <a href="/wiki/Slough_railway_station" title="Slough railway station">Slough</a> to <a href="/wiki/Windsor_%26_Eton_Central_railway_station" title="Windsor & Eton Central railway station">Windsor & Eton Central</a>, opposite <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>'s convenience. </p><p>Slough has 96 <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed buildings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Berkshire#Slough" title="Grade I listed buildings in Berkshire">Four Grade I</a>: <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Slough" class="mw-redirect" title="St Laurence's Church, Slough">St Laurence's Church</a> (Upton), <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_the_Virgin_Church,_Langley" title="St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley">St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-stmarythevirgin_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stmarythevirgin-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Baylis_House" title="Baylis House">Baylis House</a> and Godolphin Court</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Berkshire#Slough" title="Grade II* listed buildings in Berkshire">Seven Grade II*</a>: <a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Parish_Church,_Slough" title="St Mary's Parish Church, Slough">St Mary's Church</a> (Upton-cum-Chalvey), Upton Court, the Kederminster and Seymour Almshouses in Langley, St Peter's Church (Chalvey), Ostrich Inn (Colnbrook) and King John's Palace (Colnbrook)</li> <li>Grade II listed structures include four milestones, Beech, Oak and Linden Houses at Upton Hospital, <a href="/wiki/St_Ethelbert%27s_Church,_Slough" title="St Ethelbert's Church, Slough">St Ethelbert's Church, Slough</a> and Slough railway station.</li></ul> <p>1918 saw a large area of agricultural land to the west of Slough developed as an army motor repair depot, used to store and repair huge numbers of motor vehicles coming back from the battlefields of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> in <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a>. In April 1920, the Government sold the site and its contents to the Slough Trading Co. Ltd. Repair of ex-army vehicles continued until 1925, when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company (renamed <a href="/wiki/Segro" title="Segro">Slough Estates Ltd</a>) to establish an <a href="/wiki/Industrial_park" title="Industrial park">industrial estate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spectacular growth and employment ensued, with Slough attracting workers from many parts of the UK and abroad. <a href="/wiki/Slough_Town_Hall" title="Slough Town Hall">Slough Town Hall</a>, which was designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Holloway_James" title="Charles Holloway James">Charles Holloway James</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Rowland_Pierce" title="Stephen Rowland Pierce">Stephen Rowland Pierce</a>, was completed in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, Slough experienced a series of <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">air raids</a>, mostly in October 1940 (the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of a raid on the 13th), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough. Local air raid deaths and deaths at the hospital account for the 23 civilian lives recorded lost in the borough area.<sup id="cite_ref-cwgc_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cwgc-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, several further large housing developments arose to take large numbers of people migrating from war-damaged London. Between 1955 and 1957 the town was the site of the <a href="/wiki/Slough_experiment" title="Slough experiment">Slough experiment</a>, a large-scale road safety trial.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The old Slough library was opened on 28 November 1974. It was officially called the Robert Taylor Library, named after Alderman Taylor in recognition of his contribution to the library service. The library was officially opened by the Mayor, Councillor DR Peters, on 15 May 1975. It was demolished in May 2017 as part of the programme of redevelopment in the town centre.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Redevelopment">Redevelopment</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Slough" title="History of Slough">History of Slough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cippenham_Moat" title="Cippenham Moat">Cippenham Moat</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Queensmere_Shopping_Centre,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg/250px-Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg/330px-Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg/500px-Queensmere_Shopping_Centre%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1795" data-file-height="1009" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The redevelopment of the shopping centre in Slough as part of the <a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Slough" title="Heart of Slough">Heart of Slough</a> redevelopment programme</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_(geograph_3459140).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg/250px-Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg/330px-Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg/500px-Side_view_of_Slough_bus_station_%28geograph_3459140%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The newly built Slough bus station in April 2013</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_Curve_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Slough_Curve_Library.jpg/250px-Slough_Curve_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Slough_Curve_Library.jpg/330px-Slough_Curve_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Slough_Curve_Library.jpg/500px-Slough_Curve_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="540" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">'The Curve', Slough's distinctively shaped Library and Cultural Centre, opened in 2016. It was named 'Best public service building' at the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) excellence awards held in March 2017. It was built by Slough Urban Renewal, a partnership between the council and Morgan Sindall.</div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Town_Hall,_19_Bath_Road,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg/250px-Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg/330px-Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg/500px-Old_Town_Hall%2C_19_Bath_Road%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4828" data-file-height="2715" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Slough_Town_Hall" title="Slough Town Hall">Old Town Hall</a>: Council's headquarters 1937–2011, now a school.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 21st century, Slough has seen major redevelopment of the town centre. Old buildings are being replaced with new offices and shopping complexes. <a href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> has replaced an existing superstore with a larger <a href="/wiki/Tesco_Extra" class="mw-redirect" title="Tesco Extra">Tesco Extra</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Slough" title="Heart of Slough">Heart of Slough</a> Project is plan for the large-scale redevelopment of the town centre as a focus and cultural quarter for the creative media, information and communications industries created a mixed-use complex, multi-functional buildings, visual landmarks and a public space in the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley" title="Thames Valley">Thames Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Approval was given for the £400 million project by Slough Borough Council's planning committee on 9 July 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and work began in 2010 for completion in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2009, two key components of the project were signed: the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) signed its agreement to provide £11m of funding for infrastructure and Thames Valley University (TVU) courses which were due to remain in the town found a new home at the Centre in Farnham Road, Slough.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In parallel to the town centre redevelopment plan, <a href="/wiki/Segro" title="Segro">Segro</a> (owner of the Slough Trading Estate) planned to spend £600 million over the following 20 years on the estate. This was intended to create environmentally sustainable buildings, open green spaces, two hotels, a conference centre, cafés, restaurants and better transport facilities to improve links to Slough town centre and the surrounding residential areas. It was claimed that the plan would create more than 4,100 new jobs and contribute around £100m a year to Slough's economy.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If both plans went ahead, nearly £1 billion would be spent on redeveloping Slough over the next 20 years. </p><p>In 2009, <a href="/wiki/Herschel_Park" title="Herschel Park">Herschel Park</a> (known as Upton Park until 1949), named for <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a>, was relandscaped in a multimillion-pound effort to bring it back to its former <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian era</a> glory.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The park was featured in an episode of the documentary programme <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F_(British_TV_series)" title="Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)">Who Do You Think You Are?</a></i> focusing on the TV presenter <a href="/wiki/Davina_McCall" title="Davina McCall">Davina McCall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, £2 million was set aside to improve disabled access to Slough railway station in preparation for an expected increase in use during the 2012 London Olympics.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Preparations were under way for the regeneration of the Britwell suburb of Slough, involving tearing down a dilapidated block of flats and the closing of the public house the Jolly Londoner in Wentworth Avenue and replacing them with new homes, as well as relocating the shopping parade in the street to nearby Kennedy Park.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As part of the Heart of Slough project, construction work on <a href="/wiki/Slough_bus_station" title="Slough bus station">a new bus station</a> began in March 2010, following weeks of demolition work to half of the existing bus station and the removal of Compair House near the railway station.<sup id="cite_ref-sloughobserver.co.uk_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sloughobserver.co.uk-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was opened in May 2011. </p><p>Redevelopment on this scale has been strongly criticised by conservation groups. <a href="/wiki/The_Twentieth_Century_Society" title="The Twentieth Century Society">The Twentieth Century Society</a> has stated that </p> <blockquote> <p>[A] tragically high quantity of good buildings have been demolished in Slough in recent years, including grand Art-Deco-styled factories by the likes of Wallis Gilbert and high-quality post-war offices. More are to come down as the town tries to erase its past and reinvent itself from scratch. Despite famously heckling Slough, <a href="/wiki/John_Betjeman" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a>'s praise for the town hall's architecture as 'a striving for unity out of chaos' in 1948 has never been so relevant as today. C20 believes that the redevelopment of the town hall would be an act of vandalism to the civic centre and is supporting the Campaign to Save Slough's Heritage in their request for a review of the decision.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>During November 2016, the Slough Queensmere and Observatory shopping centres were sold to <a href="/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_Investment_Authority" title="Abu Dhabi Investment Authority">Abu Dhabi Investment Authority</a> (ADIA) in a deal worth £130 million.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2025, it was reported that the council was considering a number of options to merge with larger local authorities, including joining a London borough or becoming part of the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Authority" title="Greater London Authority">Greater London Authority</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <p>Slough is 20 miles (32 km) west of <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross" title="Charing Cross">Charing Cross</a>, central <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, 2 miles (3 km) north of <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Berkshire" title="Windsor, Berkshire">Windsor</a>, 5 miles (8 km) east of <a href="/wiki/Maidenhead" title="Maidenhead">Maidenhead</a>, 11 miles (18 km) south-east of <a href="/wiki/High_Wycombe" title="High Wycombe">High Wycombe</a> and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> of <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a>. Slough is within the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater London Urban Area">Greater London Urban Area</a> and on the border with <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hillingdon" title="London Borough of Hillingdon">London Borough of Hillingdon</a> and <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hounslow" title="London Borough of Hounslow">London Borough of Hounslow</a>. Heathrow Airport is 5 miles away. Nearby towns are <a href="/wiki/Uxbridge" title="Uxbridge">Uxbridge</a> to the northeast and <a href="/wiki/Beaconsfield" title="Beaconsfield">Beaconsfield</a> to the north. </p><p>Most of the area that now makes up Slough was <a href="/wiki/Ancient_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient counties of England">anciently</a> part of <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>, however, Poyle was historically in Middlesex. The town developed by the expansion and amalgamation of villages along the <a href="/wiki/A4_road_(England)" title="A4 road (England)">Great West Road</a>. Over the years Slough has expanded greatly, incorporating a number of different villages. Original villages that are now suburbs of Slough include <a href="/wiki/Chalvey" title="Chalvey">Chalvey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cippenham" title="Cippenham">Cippenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colnbrook" title="Colnbrook">Colnbrook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Langley,_Berkshire" title="Langley, Berkshire">Langley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poyle" title="Poyle">Poyle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upton,_Slough" title="Upton, Slough">Upton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wexham" title="Wexham">Wexham</a>. </p><p>Named neighbourhoods include Brands Hill, <a href="/wiki/Britwell" title="Britwell">Britwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huntercombe,_Slough" class="mw-redirect" title="Huntercombe, Slough">Huntercombe</a>, Manor Park, <a href="/wiki/Salt_Hill" title="Salt Hill">Salt Hill</a>, Upton Lea and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Windsor_Meadows&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Windsor Meadows (page does not exist)">Windsor Meadows</a>. The urban area merges into the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Parishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Parishes">parishes</a> of <a href="/wiki/Burnham,_Buckinghamshire" title="Burnham, Buckinghamshire">Burnham</a>, a small area of <a href="/wiki/Taplow" title="Taplow">Taplow</a> near <a href="/wiki/Cippenham" title="Cippenham">Cippenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Farnham_Royal" title="Farnham Royal">Farnham Royal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stoke_Poges" title="Stoke Poges">Stoke Poges</a> which remain in the county of Buckinghamshire and <a href="/wiki/Datchet" title="Datchet">Datchet</a> which is in Berkshire. <a href="/wiki/Eton,_Berkshire" title="Eton, Berkshire">Eton</a> is narrowly <a href="/wiki/Buffer_zone" title="Buffer zone">buffered</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Jubilee_River" title="Jubilee River">Jubilee River</a> and by green space (mainly the college playing fields) from part of Slough, and the two areas formerly formed the Eton birth, marriages and deaths registration district. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3></div> <p>The nearest <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a> weather observing station to Slough is <a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Airport" title="Heathrow Airport">Heathrow Airport</a>, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Slough town centre. This part of the <a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley" title="Thames Valley">Thames Valley</a> is notable for generally having the warmest daytime summer temperatures on average in the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Typically, according to 1981–2010 normals, the average high temperature in July is 23.5 °C (74.3 °F.) </p><p>Rainfall is low compared to most of the British Isles, with under 600 mm (23.62 in) annually, and 105 days<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reporting over 1 mm of rain. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for <a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Airport" title="Heathrow Airport">Heathrow Airport</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Location_identifier#WMO_station_identifiers" title="Location identifier">WMO ID</a>: 03772; coordinates <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Slough&params=51.47921_N_0.45057_W_type:landmark_region:GB&title=Met+Office+LHR"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°28′45″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°27′02″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.47921°N 0.45057°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.47921; -0.45057</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Met Office LHR</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>; elevation: 25 m (82 ft); 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1948–present </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.0<br />(60.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9327; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.1<br />(68.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.8<br />(74.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.5<br />(83.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.8<br />(89.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.8<br />(94.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF0800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">40.2<br />(104.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF1800; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">37.9<br />(100.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF3A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.0<br />(91.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.8<br />(83.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.6<br />(65.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFAB58; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.6<br />(61.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF0800; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">40.2<br />(104.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFE4C9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4<br />(47.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.0<br />(48.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.0<br />(59.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.4<br />(65.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8913; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.6<br />(70.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.9<br />(75.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.4<br />(74.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB163; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.8<br />(60.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5<br />(52.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE1C3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8<br />(47.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB164; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.7<br />(60.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFF7EF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.6<br />(42.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF6ED; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.8<br />(42.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFE7D0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9<br />(46.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD5AC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5<br />(50.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFBF80; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.7<br />(56.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAA55; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.8<br />(62.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.0<br />(66.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.7<br />(65.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFB061; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.9<br />(60.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.3<br />(54.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4C9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4<br />(47.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF5EB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.9<br />(42.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7<br />(36.9) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7<br />(36.9) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.1<br />(39.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.0<br />(42.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.1<br />(48.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.0<br />(53.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC79; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.2<br />(57.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFBC7A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.1<br />(57.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6<br />(52.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFE1C3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8<br />(47.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF9F3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.3<br />(41.5) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.1<br />(37.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">7.8<br />(46.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #6565FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−24<br />(−11) </td> <td style="background: #9D9DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−13.6<br />(7.5) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−8.1<br />(17.4) </td> <td style="background: #C3C3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.6<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.9<br />(30.4) </td> <td style="background: #EEEEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.5<br />(34.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF7EF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.6<br />(42.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF5EB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.9<br />(42.6) </td> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.8<br />(35.2) </td> <td style="background: #D4D4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.3<br />(26.1) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−7.0<br />(19.4) </td> <td style="background: #8686FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−17.8<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #6565FF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−24<br />(−11) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #A7FFA7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.8<br />(2.31) </td> <td style="background: #B5FFB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.0<br />(1.77) </td> <td style="background: #C5FFC5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38.8<br />(1.53) </td> <td style="background: #BDFFBD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42.3<br />(1.67) </td> <td style="background: #BAFFBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.9<br />(1.81) </td> <td style="background: #B6FFB6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.3<br />(1.86) </td> <td style="background: #BAFFBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.8<br />(1.80) </td> <td style="background: #B0FFB0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52.8<br />(2.08) </td> <td style="background: #B2FFB2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.6<br />(1.95) </td> <td style="background: #9DFF9D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65.1<br />(2.56) </td> <td style="background: #98FF98; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.6<br />(2.62) </td> <td style="background: #A9FFA9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.1<br />(2.25) </td> <td style="background: #B1FFB1; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">615.0<br />(24.21) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #7171FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5 </td> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5 </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.5 </td> <td style="background: #8E8EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8 </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0 </td> <td style="background: #9595FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3 </td> <td style="background: #9D9DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9 </td> <td style="background: #9797FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4 </td> <td style="background: #9A9AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9 </td> <td style="background: #7979FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8 </td> <td style="background: #7070FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #7979FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8 </td> <td style="background: #8A8AFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">111.7 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #6F6F6F; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">61.1 </td> <td style="background: #9E9E9E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78.8 </td> <td style="background: #B8B853; color:#000000;" class="notheme">124.5 </td> <td style="background: #D2D200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">176.7 </td> <td style="background: #D9D900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">207.5 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">208.4 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">217.8 </td> <td style="background: #D8D800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">202.1 </td> <td style="background: #C9C900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">157.1 </td> <td style="background: #B4B46D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">115.2 </td> <td style="background: #858585; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70.7 </td> <td style="background: #646464; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">55.0 </td> <td style="background: #C0C023; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,674.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a> <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Meteorological_Institute" title="Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute">KNMI</a> <sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ST_Mary%C2%B4s_Parish_Church_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/ST_Mary%C2%B4s_Parish_Church_4.jpg/250px-ST_Mary%C2%B4s_Parish_Church_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/ST_Mary%C2%B4s_Parish_Church_4.jpg/330px-ST_Mary%C2%B4s_Parish_Church_4.jpg 1.5x, 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.smooth-pie-legend{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fill,minmax(190px,1fr));gap:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .thumbinner .smooth-pie-footer{margin-top:.5em}}</style> <div class="pie-thumb thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="smooth-pie-container" style=""> <div class="smooth-pie-legend-container"><div class="smooth-pie-caption">Faith in Slough (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> <ol class="smooth-pie-legend"> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:DodgerBlue;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Christianity_in_Britain" title="History of Christianity in Britain">Christianity</a> (31.96%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:honeydew;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Irreligion in the United Kingdom">No Religion</a> (13.08%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:green;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Islam in the United Kingdom">Islam</a> (29.44%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:yellow;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Sikhism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Sikhism in the United Kingdom">Sikhism</a> (11.35%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:Coral;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Hinduism in the United Kingdom">Hinduism</a> (7.79%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:aqua;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Buddhism in the United Kingdom">Buddhism</a> (0.49%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:darkkhaki;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label"><a href="/wiki/Judaism_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in the United Kingdom">Judaism</a> (0.05%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:darkorchid;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label">Other Religions (0.45%)</span></li> <li><span class="l-color" style="-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;background:lightgrey;color:#000"></span><span class="l-label">Religion not Stated (5.39%)</span></li> </ol> </div> <div class="smooth-pie" style="width:200px;height:200px;background:lightgrey;color:#000;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;" title="Religion not Stated (5.39%)" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="pie25" style="background:DodgerBlue;color:#000" title="Christianity (31.96%)"></div> <div class="pie25" style="background:DodgerBlue;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.070turn)" title="Christianity (31.96%)"></div> <div class="pie12-5" style="background:honeydew;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.320turn)" title="No Religion (13.08%)"></div> <div class="pie12-5" style="background:honeydew;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.325turn)" title="No Religion (13.08%)"></div> <div class="pie25" style="background:green;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.450turn)" title="Islam (29.44%)"></div> <div class="pie25" style="background:green;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.495turn)" title="Islam (29.44%)"></div> <div class="pie7" style="background:yellow;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.745turn)" title="Sikhism (11.35%)"></div> <div class="pie7" style="background:yellow;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.788turn)" title="Sikhism (11.35%)"></div> <div class="pie7" style="background:Coral;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.858turn)" title="Hinduism (7.79%)"></div> <div class="pie7" style="background:Coral;color:#000; transform: rotate(0.866turn)" title="Hinduism (7.79%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.936turn); background:aqua;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 3.14262660% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Buddhism (0.49%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.941turn); background:darkkhaki;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 0.62832680% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Judaism (0.05%)"></div> <div style="transform: rotate(0.942turn); background:darkorchid;color:#000; clip-path: polygon(0% 0%, 3.14262660% 0%, 0 100%)" title="Other Religions (0.45%)"></div> </div> </div></div></div><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 census</a>, Slough is a large town with a population of 158,400 of which 46.9% of the population was <a href="/wiki/British_Asian" class="mw-redirect" title="British Asian">Asian</a>, 35.9% <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white</a>, 7.5% <a href="/wiki/Black_British" class="mw-redirect" title="Black British">black</a>, 4% <a href="/wiki/Mixed_(United_Kingdom_ethnicity_category)" title="Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)">mixed race</a>, 1.2% <a href="/wiki/British_Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="British Arab">Arab</a> and 4.5% of other ethnic heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-2021census_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021census-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This makes the town one of the most ethnically diverse local authorities in the country outside of London. </p><p>Despite its diverse population, English is the most spoken language in 2021, with over 110,212 citing English as their first language. Those stating other languages is significantly lower due to the large shares of the <a href="/wiki/British_Asians" title="British Asians">British Asian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">Black</a> population speaking English as their first language. Aside from English, the most commonly spoken languages are <a href="/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language">Punjabi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Top countries of birth (<a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 census</a>) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Country of birth </th> <th>Number resident </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> </td> <td>87,350 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td>17,107 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> </td> <td>14,418 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> </td> <td>8,912 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> </td> <td>3,551 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/40px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/60px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a> </td> <td>1,940 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/40px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/60px-Flag_of_Sri_Lanka.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> </td> <td>1,385 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> </td> <td>1,336 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/40px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/60px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> </td> <td>1,125 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> </td> <td>1,064 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Figures from the 2021 census showed that 32% of Slough's population identified as Christian, 29.4% as Muslim, 11.4% as Sikh, 7.8% as Hindu, 0.5% as Buddhist, 0.1% as Jewish, 0.5% as having other religions, 13% as having no religion and 5.4% did not answer the question.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further information can be found on the page <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Slough" title="Demographics of Slough">Demographics of Slough</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Slough_Borough_Council" title="Slough Borough Council">Slough Borough Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Slough" title="Borough of Slough">Borough of Slough</a></div> <p>There is one main tier of local government covering Slough, at <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary authority</a> level: <a href="/wiki/Slough_Borough_Council" title="Slough Borough Council">Slough Borough Council</a>, which is based at <a href="/wiki/Observatory_House" title="Observatory House">Observatory House</a> in the town centre. Most of the urban area is <a href="/wiki/Unparished_area" title="Unparished area">unparished</a>, although some of the suburbs are included in <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parishes</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Britwell" title="Britwell">Britwell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wexham_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Wexham Court">Wexham Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_history">Administrative history</h3></div> <p>Slough was historically a hamlet in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Upton,_Slough" title="Upton, Slough">Upton</a>, also known as Upton-cum-Chalvey, in <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until 1863 it was administered by the parish <a href="/wiki/Vestry" title="Vestry">vestry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manorial_court" title="Manorial court">manorial courts</a>, in the same way as most rural areas. As Slough began developing into a town, the need for more urban forms of local government grew. In 1863 a <a href="/wiki/Local_board_of_health#Local_Government_Act_1858" title="Local board of health">local government district</a> was established for Slough, covering part of the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (including the old village of Upton) and a smaller part of the neighbouring parish of <a href="/wiki/Stoke_Poges" title="Stoke Poges">Stoke Poges</a>. The town was then governed by an elected local board.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Such local government districts were converted into <a href="/wiki/Urban_district_(England_and_Wales)" title="Urban district (England and Wales)">urban districts</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1894" title="Local Government Act 1894">Local Government Act 1894</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1900 the Slough urban district was enlarged to absorb most of the residual parts of the old Upton-cum-Chalvey parish that had been outside the urban district, including <a href="/wiki/Chalvey" title="Chalvey">Chalvey</a>. The urban district was further enlarged in 1930, when it was significantly expanded to take in most of the neighbouring parish of <a href="/wiki/Langley,_Berkshire" title="Langley, Berkshire">Langley</a> (including the village), the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Hill" title="Salt Hill">Salt Hill</a> area from the parish of <a href="/wiki/Farnham_Royal" title="Farnham Royal">Farnham Royal</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Cippenham" title="Cippenham">Cippenham</a> area from the parish of <a href="/wiki/Burnham,_Buckinghamshire" title="Burnham, Buckinghamshire">Burnham</a>. In 1938 the urban district was incorporated to become a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1974, the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Borough_of_Slough" title="Municipal Borough of Slough">Municipal Borough of Slough</a> was replaced by a larger <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan district</a> with <a href="/wiki/Borough_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Borough status in the United Kingdom">borough status</a> called Slough. The enlarged district gained the <a href="/wiki/Britwell" title="Britwell">Britwell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wexham_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Wexham Court">Wexham Court</a> areas, and was transferred from Buckinghamshire to Berkshire.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The borough was enlarged in 1995 to take in <a href="/wiki/Colnbrook_with_Poyle" title="Colnbrook with Poyle">Colnbrook with Poyle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1998 Slough Borough Council became a unitary authority when <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_County_Council" title="Berkshire County Council">Berkshire County Council</a> was abolished and the borough council took on the former county council's functions in the borough.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2015, Slough has had a Youth Parliament to represent the views of younger people. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Town_twinning">Town twinning</h3></div> <p>Slough is <a href="/wiki/Town_twinning" class="mw-redirect" title="Town twinning">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/40px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/60px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Montreuil-sur-Mer" title="Montreuil-sur-Mer">Montreuil</a></b>, France <i>(since 1988)</i><sup id="cite_ref-Archant_twinning_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg/250px-Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg/330px-Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg/500px-Red_White_Blue_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2128" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Slough_Trading_Estate" title="Slough Trading Estate">Slough Trading Estate</a> played a major part in making Slough an important business centre in South East England.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tesco_Extra_slough,_Wellington_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg/250px-Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg/330px-Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg/500px-Tesco_Extra_slough%2C_Wellington_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1149" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> Extra store, one of the largest in Europe</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg/250px-Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg/330px-Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg/500px-Scottish_%26_Southern_Slough_Power_Station.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The private power station for Slough Trading Estate. This has been supplying heat and power to the estate since 1920. In 2007 it was taken over by energy supplier <a href="/wiki/Scottish_and_Southern_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish and Southern Energy">Scottish and Southern Energy</a>.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_Retail_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Slough_Retail_Park.jpg/250px-Slough_Retail_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Slough_Retail_Park.jpg/330px-Slough_Retail_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Slough_Retail_Park.jpg/500px-Slough_Retail_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Slough Retail Park, one of many large outlets in the town</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Before the 19th century, the main businesses of Slough were brickfields and agriculture. The bricks for the building of <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a> were made in Slough. Later, as the <a href="/wiki/A4_road_(England)" title="A4 road (England)">Great West Road</a> traffic increased, inns and pubs sprang up along the road to service the passing trade. Until the town developed as an industrial area, <a href="/wiki/Nursery_(horticulture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nursery (horticulture)">nurseries</a> were prominent in the local economy; the <a href="/wiki/Cox%27s_Orange_Pippin" title="Cox's Orange Pippin">Cox's Orange Pippin</a> apple was first raised in Colnbrook (not then within Slough) around 1825, and the <a href="/wiki/Dianthus" title="Dianthus">dianthus</a> "Mrs Sinkins Pink" was first raised at some point between 1868<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1883<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by John Sinkins, the master of the <a href="/wiki/Eton,_Berkshire" title="Eton, Berkshire">Eton</a> <a href="/wiki/Poor_Law_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor Law Union">Union</a> <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">Workhouse</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which lay in Slough. </p><p>In the mid-19th century, the only major employer apart from the brickfields was <a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Elliman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Elliman (page does not exist)">James Elliman</a>, who started as a draper in Chandos Street. In 1847, he changed business and manufactured his Elliman's Embrocation and Royal Embrocation horse <a href="/wiki/Liniment" title="Liniment">liniment</a> at factories in Wellington Street and Chandos Street. Elliman became a major benefactor to the town, and is remembered today in the names of local roads and schools. </p><p>In September 1851, <a href="/wiki/William_Thomas_Buckland" title="William Thomas Buckland">William Thomas Buckland</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Auctioneer" class="mw-redirect" title="Auctioneer">auctioneer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surveying" title="Surveying">surveyor</a> from nearby <a href="/wiki/Wraysbury" title="Wraysbury">Wraysbury</a>, began livestock sales in a field near the Great Western Road Railway Station belonging to the North Star Inn. Originally held on the first Tuesday of every month, the Cattle Market's popularity soon saw this increased to every Tuesday. A move to Wexham Street was necessitated by the postwar redevelopment of the town. The Slough Cattle Market was run by Messrs Buckland and Sons until its final closure in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1906, <a href="/wiki/Horlicks" title="Horlicks">James Horlick</a>, one of the founders of the eponymous <a href="/wiki/Horlicks" title="Horlicks">malted milk</a> company, opened a purpose-built red-brick factory near Slough Railway Station to manufacture his malted milk product. In 2015, the business was sold by <a href="/wiki/Glaxo_Smith_Kline" class="mw-redirect" title="Glaxo Smith Kline">Glaxo Smith Kline</a> and in 2017, manufacturing at the site ceased altogether. The site is currently proposed to become residential making use of the original buildings as much as possible. </p><p>Starting in the 1920s, <a href="/wiki/Slough_Estates_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Slough Estates Ltd">Slough Estates Ltd</a>, the operator of the original <a href="/wiki/Slough_Trading_Estate" title="Slough Trading Estate">Slough Trading Estate</a>, created and operated many more estates in the UK and abroad. The Slough Trading Estate meant that the town was largely insulated from many of the effects of <a href="/wiki/Recession" title="Recession">recession</a>. For many years, Slough's economy was mainly manufacturing-based. The company Zwicky Limited, a manufacturer of liquid pumps, filters, compression valves and aircraft refuelling units, runway sweepers were based in Slough.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the last 20 or so years, there has been a major shift from a manufacturing to an information-based economy, with the closure of many factories (some of which had been in Slough for many decades). The factories are rapidly being replaced by office buildings. Hundreds of major companies have sited in Slough Trading Estate over the years, with its proximity to London <a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Airport" title="Heathrow Airport">Heathrow Airport</a> and good motorway connections being attractive. In the 1960s, <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Anderson" title="Gerry Anderson">Gerry Anderson</a>'s film company was based in Slough, and his <a href="/wiki/Supermarionation" title="Supermarionation">Supermarionation</a> series, including <i><a href="/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)" title="Thunderbirds (TV series)">Thunderbirds</a></i>, were filmed there.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The UK headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Mars,_Incorporated" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars, Incorporated">Mars, Incorporated</a> is in Slough, the main factory having been established in 1932 by <a href="/wiki/Forrest_Mars_Sr." title="Forrest Mars Sr.">Forrest Mars Sr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_C._Mars" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank C. Mars">Frank C. Mars</a>. It produced the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars Bar">Mars Bar</a> in Slough over 70 years ago. One of the Mars factories has been demolished and some production has moved to the Czech Republic. The European head offices of major IT companies such as <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="BlackBerry (company)">BlackBerry</a>, <a href="/wiki/McAfee" title="McAfee">McAfee</a>, <a href="/wiki/CA_Technologies" title="CA Technologies">Computer Associates</a>, <a href="/wiki/PictureTel" title="PictureTel">PictureTel</a> and Compusys (among others) are all in the town. <a href="/wiki/O2_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="O2 plc">O<sub>2</sub></a> is headquartered in the town across four buildings. The town is also home to the business support organisation <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thames_Valley_Chamber_of_Commerce_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group (page does not exist)">Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Foundation_for_Educational_Research" title="National Foundation for Educational Research">National Foundation for Educational Research</a>, which is housed in the Mere. </p><p>Recent new offices include those of <a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Black_and_Decker" class="mw-redirect" title="Black and Decker">Black and Decker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abbey_business_centres" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbey business centres">Abbey business centres</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The registered office of <a href="/wiki/Furniture_Village" title="Furniture Village">Furniture Village</a> lies in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The motor trade has long been represented in Slough. Until 1966, <a href="/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn" title="Citroën">Citroën</a> assembled cars in a Liverpool Road factory (later used by Mars Confectionery), and it retains its UK headquarters in the town. <a href="/wiki/Ford_of_Britain" title="Ford of Britain">Ford</a> built <a href="/wiki/Ford_D_series" title="Ford D series">D Series</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ford_Cargo" title="Ford Cargo">Cargo</a> lorries at its factory in Langley (a former <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Aircraft" title="Hawker Aircraft">Hawker Aircraft</a> site) from 1936 to the 1950s<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until the site was redeveloped for housing in the 1990s. <a href="/wiki/Ferrari" title="Ferrari">Ferrari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maserati" title="Maserati">Maserati</a> now have offices in the town. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg/250px-M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg/330px-M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg/500px-M4_Foot_Bridge_Windsor_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/M4_motorway" title="M4 motorway">M4 motorway</a> between Junctions 5 and 6 (facing London)</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Slough_station_westbound.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Slough_station_westbound.JPG/250px-Slough_station_westbound.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Slough_station_westbound.JPG/330px-Slough_station_westbound.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Slough_station_westbound.JPG/500px-Slough_station_westbound.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The relief lines at <a href="/wiki/Slough_railway_station" title="Slough railway station">Slough railway station</a>, used for local passenger trains towards <a href="/wiki/Reading_railway_station" title="Reading railway station">Reading</a> (Platform 4, left) and <a href="/wiki/Paddington_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddington railway station">London Paddington</a> (Platform 5, right)</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG/250px-First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG/330px-First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG/500px-First_B%26TV_ES64037.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3328" data-file-height="1872" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">A <a href="/wiki/First_Berkshire_%26_The_Thames_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="First Berkshire & The Thames Valley">First Berkshire & The Thames Valley</a> <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Citaro" title="Mercedes-Benz Citaro">Mercedes-Benz Citaro</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG/250px-Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG/330px-Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG/500px-Cycle_hire_scheme_at_Slough_railway_station.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1287" data-file-height="858" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The Cycle To Hire scheme was launched in Slough in late 2013.</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/First_Berkshire_%26_The_Thames_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="First Berkshire & The Thames Valley">First Berkshire & The Thames Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Green_Line_Coaches" title="Green Line Coaches">Green Line Coaches</a></div> <p>Located roughly 20 miles (32 km) west of <a href="/wiki/Central_London" title="Central London">Central London</a>, Slough is a <a href="/wiki/Commuter_town" title="Commuter town">commuter town</a> near <a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Airport" title="Heathrow Airport">Heathrow Airport</a> (7 miles (11 km) south-east), Uxbridge (6 miles (9.7 km) north-east), Maidenhead (5 miles (8.0 km) west) and Staines (7 miles (11 km) south-east). Slough residents also commute to Windsor, Reading and Bracknell as well as Central London. There are large passenger movements in the morning and evening rush hours. Road transport in Slough includes: </p> <ul><li>Within Slough: Buses (<a href="/wiki/First_Berkshire_%26_The_Thames_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="First Berkshire & The Thames Valley">First Berkshire & The Thames Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arriva_Shires_%26_Essex" class="mw-redirect" title="Arriva Shires & Essex">Arriva Shires & Essex</a>, Redline & <a href="/wiki/Carousel_Buses" title="Carousel Buses">Carousel Buses</a> (only Sundays)), taxis, minicabs and private cars on roads are also used.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>To Heathrow Airport: <a href="/wiki/First_Berkshire_%26_The_Thames_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="First Berkshire & The Thames Valley">First Berkshire & The Thames Valley</a> bus routes 75, 76, 77 and 78 serve Slough town centre, Langley and Heathrow Airport. First also run bus routes 71 (via <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Berkshire" title="Windsor, Berkshire">Windsor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egham" title="Egham">Egham</a> & <a href="/wiki/Staines-upon-Thames" title="Staines-upon-Thames">Staines-upon-Thames</a>) and 60/61 (via <a href="/wiki/Datchet" title="Datchet">Datchet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horton,_Berkshire" title="Horton, Berkshire">Horton</a> & <a href="/wiki/Wraysbury" title="Wraysbury">Wraysbury</a>) to <a href="/wiki/Heathrow_Terminal_5" title="Heathrow Terminal 5">Heathrow Terminal 5</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Taxicab" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxicab">Taxis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxicabs of the United Kingdom">minicabs</a> are also available at a higher cost.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>To Central London: Buses and Greenline coaches are available, but rail is more generally used as express trains connect Slough to <a href="/wiki/Paddington_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddington railway station">London Paddington</a> in 14 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>To <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>: Bharat Coaches provide services from Southall to <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>/<a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton" title="Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a>/<a href="/wiki/Coventry" title="Coventry">Coventry</a>/<a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>/<a href="/wiki/Bradford" title="Bradford">Bradford</a> and Leicester via Slough.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Slough is bounded by the <a href="/wiki/M4_motorway" title="M4 motorway">M4</a> to the south<sup id="cite_ref-maps.google.co.uk_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maps.google.co.uk-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is served by junctions 5, 6 and 7; other roads serving the town include the <a href="/wiki/A4_road_(England)" title="A4 road (England)">A4</a>, <a href="/wiki/A355_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A355 road">A355</a>, and <a href="/wiki/A412_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A412 road">A412</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rail">Rail</h3></div> <p>Slough is served by <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)" title="Great Western Railway (train operating company)">Great Western Railway</a> stations at <a href="/wiki/Burnham_railway_station" title="Burnham railway station">Burnham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Slough_railway_station" title="Slough railway station">Slough</a><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Langley_railway_station" title="Langley railway station">Langley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slough station is a junction between the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Main_Line" title="Great Western Main Line">Great Western Main Line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Slough_to_Windsor_%26_Eton_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slough to Windsor & Eton Line">Slough to Windsor & Eton Line</a> to allow passengers to connect for <a href="/wiki/Windsor_%26_Eton_Central_railway_station" title="Windsor & Eton Central railway station">Windsor & Eton Central</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Reading_railway_station" title="Reading railway station">Reading</a>: Great Western Railway operate fast services to Reading every half an hour which take about 15 minutes, as well as slow services every fifteen minutes which take 30 minutes. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Paddington_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddington railway station">London Paddington</a>: Great Western Railway operate express services to London every half an hour which take 14 minutes, as well as slow services every fifteen minutes taking 26 minutes. </p><p>Slough has services on the <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_line" title="Elizabeth line">Elizabeth line</a>, a new railway line across central London opened in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Western_Rail_Approach_to_Heathrow" title="Western Rail Approach to Heathrow">Western Rail Approach to Heathrow</a> is a £500m rail project announced by the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Transport" title="Department for Transport">Department for Transport</a>; <a href="/wiki/Network_Rail" title="Network Rail">Network Rail</a> announced the route in 2014. It will directly serve Slough with four trains every hour, reducing travel times to Heathrow to six minutes. It is expected to be operational in the early 2020s.<sup id="cite_ref-sloughobserver_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sloughobserver-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wrath_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wrath-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cycling">Cycling</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Network" title="National Cycle Network">National Cycle Network</a> route 61 runs through central Slough. A <a href="/wiki/Smoove" class="mw-redirect" title="Smoove">Smoove</a> <a href="/wiki/Bike_sharing_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Bike sharing system">bike sharing system</a> was launched in October 2013, targeting commuters travelling between the trading estate and nearby railway stations.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canal">Canal</h3></div> <p>Slough is connected by the <a href="/wiki/Slough_Arm" title="Slough Arm">Slough Arm</a> to the main line of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Union_Canal" title="Grand Union Canal">Grand Union Canal</a> which runs between the Thames at Brentford and Birmingham. It travels from the terminus basin at Stoke Road to the junction with the main line at Cowley Peachey; it was restored to navigability in 1975 having been disused since 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-hill_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hill-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2></div> <p>Slough has a senior <a href="/wiki/Non-League_football" title="Non-League football">non-League football</a> team, <a href="/wiki/Slough_Town_F.C." title="Slough Town F.C.">Slough Town F.C.</a>, who currently play in the <a href="/wiki/National_League_South" title="National League South">National League South</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Slough_Cricket_Club" title="Slough Cricket Club">Slough Cricket Club</a> play at the <a href="/wiki/Upton,_Slough" title="Upton, Slough">Upton Park</a> ground.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Slough RFC is a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby</a> club that also plays at Upton Park.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Slough_Hockey_Club" title="Slough Hockey Club">Slough Hockey Club</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">field hockey</a> club that also plays at Upton Park and competes in the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_England_Hockey_League" title="Women's England Hockey League">Women's England Hockey League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Counties_Hockey_Association" title="Southern Counties Hockey Association">South Central Hockey League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Slough_Jets" title="Slough Jets">Slough Jets</a> is an ice hockey team that plays in the <a href="/wiki/NIHL_South_Division_1" title="NIHL South Division 1">NIHL South Division 1</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Reading_F.C._Women" title="Reading F.C. Women">Reading F.C. Womens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_women%27s_national_football_team" title="Republic of Ireland women's national football team">Republic of Ireland Womens</a> goalkeeper <a href="/wiki/Grace_Moloney" title="Grace Moloney">Grace Moloney</a> was born and lives in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-sbnation1_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sbnation1-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Slough" title="List of schools in Slough">List of schools in Slough</a></div> <p>There are numerous primary and secondary schools serving Slough. Of the latter there are four <a href="/wiki/State_school" title="State school">state</a> <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar schools</a>. In addition, <a href="/wiki/East_Berkshire_College" class="mw-redirect" title="East Berkshire College">East Berkshire College</a> has a campus in the area. Slough schools are in the top 10 best performers in the country at GCSE level. In 2011, 68.1% of pupils left school with a minimum of 5 A*-C grades (with English and maths). The national average is 58.9%.<sup id="cite_ref-smn_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smn-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames Valley University">Thames Valley University</a> (Slough Campus) is currently closed due to the <a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Slough" title="Heart of Slough">Heart of Slough</a> project. The new campus was scheduled to be opened in 2013 as part of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_West_London" title="University of West London">University of West London</a>, but as of March 2022 there had been no progress, as the former site of the university had been sold for housing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Observatory_House,_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg/200px-Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg/300px-Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg/400px-Observatory_House%2C_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Observatory_House" title="Observatory House">Observatory House</a> was given its name because it is the site where <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> lived, and erected his great 40-foot telescope.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg/250px-The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg/330px-The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg/500px-The_Office_buillding_in_Slough.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Crossbow House features in the opening sequences and some filming for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> comedy <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Office (UK TV series)">The Office</a></i>.</div></div></div></div></div> <ul><li>1597: In Act IV, Scene 5<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i>, Bardolph is mugged: "so soon as I came beyond Eton, (cozeners) threw me off, from behind one of them, in a slough of mire". This could be a reference to Slough. In the same scene Cole-brooke (<a href="/wiki/Colnbrook" title="Colnbrook">Colnbrook</a>) is referenced along with <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire" title="Reading, Berkshire">Reading</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maidenhead" title="Maidenhead">Maidenhead</a>.</li> <li>1872: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Lear" title="Edward Lear">Edward Lear</a> made reference to Slough in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=More_Nonsense_Pictures,_Rhymes,_Botany,_etc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc (page does not exist)">More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc</a></i>:<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>There was an old person of Slough,</i></dd> <dd><i>Who danced at the end of a bough;</i></dd> <dd><i>But they said, 'If you sneeze,</i></dd> <dd><i>You might damage the trees,</i></dd> <dd><i>You imprudent old person of Slough.'</i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>1932: (but set in the 26th century) In <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i>, the chimneys of Slough Crematorium, around which <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Marx" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Marx">Bernard Marx</a> flies, are used to demonstrate the physio-chemical equality of all people.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Slough's actual crematorium, in the cemetery in Stoke Road, was opened in 1963,<sup id="cite_ref-sloughbmd_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sloughbmd-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> coincidentally the year of Huxley's death. <a href="/wiki/Princess_Margaret" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Margaret">Princess Margaret</a> was cremated there in 2002.)</li> <li>1937: The poet <a href="/wiki/John_Betjeman" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a> wrote his poem <i><a href="/wiki/Slough_(poem)" title="Slough (poem)">Slough</a></i> as a protest against the new town and 850 factories that had arisen in what had been formerly a rural area, which he considered an onslaught on the rural lifestyle:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough</i></dd> <dd><i>It isn't fit for humans now</i></dd> <dd><i>There isn't grass to graze a cow.</i></dd> <dd><i>Swarm over, death!</i></dd></dl></dd> <dd>The poem was published two years before the outbreak of the Second World War, in which Britain (including Slough itself) experienced bombing from enemy air raids. On the centenary of his birth, his daughter said her father "regretted having ever written it", presenting the Mayor David MacIsaac with a book of his poems in which she had written: "We love Slough".<sup id="cite_ref-Poem_Slough_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poem_Slough-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <ul><li>1979: Slough is mentioned by name in the hit single "<a href="/wiki/The_Eton_Rifles" title="The Eton Rifles">The Eton Rifles</a>" by <a href="/wiki/The_Jam" title="The Jam">the Jam</a> from the album <i><a href="/wiki/Setting_Sons" title="Setting Sons">Setting Sons</a></i>: "There's a row going on down near Slough"</li> <li>1991: Film <i><a href="/wiki/Buddy%27s_Song_(film)" title="Buddy's Song (film)">Buddy's Song</a></i> with externals filmed mainly on the <a href="/wiki/Britwell" title="Britwell">Britwell</a> Estate and the Farnham Road (A355) released.</li> <li>1996: The <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Lillies" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiger Lillies">Tiger Lillies</a>' album <i>The Brothel to the Cemetery</i> includes a track called "Slough", probably inspired by Betjeman's poem. The lyrics to the chorus are:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>Drop a bomb on Slough, Drop a bomb on Slough</i></dd> <dd><i>Drop a bomb on Slough, Drop a bomb on Slough</i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>1998: The song "Costa del Slough" by the rock band <a href="/wiki/Marillion" title="Marillion">Marillion</a> posits the town as a post-<a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> coastal resort, possibly in a reference to the comedian <a href="/wiki/Spike_Milligan" title="Spike Milligan">Spike Milligan</a> having presented Slough on TV as a holiday resort.</li> <li>2001: The <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> comedy series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Office (UK TV series)">The Office</a></i> was set in the sales office of a paper company in Slough, presenting it as a depressing post-industrial wasteland. The character <a href="/wiki/David_Brent" title="David Brent">David Brent</a> comments on Betjeman's poem in the series, which also appears on the inside sleeve of the video and DVD of Series 1. In the <a href="/wiki/The_Office_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Office (U.S. TV series)">US version</a>, the office is located on "Slough Avenue" in <a href="/wiki/Scranton,_Pennsylvania" title="Scranton, Pennsylvania">Scranton, Pennsylvania</a>.</li> <li>2004: Slough is mentioned on the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/Lost_(2004_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lost (2004 TV series)">Lost</a></i> in the episode "<a href="/wiki/Homecoming_(Lost)" title="Homecoming (Lost)">Homecoming</a>" of Season 1. In a flashback of Charlie's life, a woman he knows says her father is away purchasing a paper company in Slough.</li> <li>2009: In episode 8, Series 1 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Dick_and_Dom" title="The Legend of Dick and Dom">The Legend of Dick and Dom</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/CBBC_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="CBBC (TV channel)">CBBC</a> show, the characters find themselves in modern-day Slough.</li> <li>2010-2025: In the <i>Slough House</i> novels by <a href="/wiki/Mick_Herron" title="Mick Herron">Mick Herron</a> and the adapted Apple+ TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Slow_Horses" title="Slow Horses">Slow Horses</a></i>, Slough House is the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty. The name derives from the fact that, as Slough is distant from London, similarly Slough House is equally far away from the headquarters of MI5 in Regents Park for the disgraced spies hoping to revive their careers.</li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Sky_One" title="Sky One">Sky One</a> comedy drama series <i><a href="/wiki/You,_Me_and_the_Apocalypse" title="You, Me and the Apocalypse">You, Me and the Apocalypse</a></i> is set in Slough where a nuclear bunker is located underneath the Slough Trading Estate. Aerial views are seen of Slough throughout the series.</li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Gervais" title="Ricky Gervais">Ricky Gervais</a>, in his role as <a href="/wiki/David_Brent" title="David Brent">David Brent</a>, released the song <i>Slough</i> on his album <i>Life on the Road,</i> the soundtrack to the film by the same title. The chorus runs:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i>Oh oh oh Slough (echo: Slough)</i></dd> <dd><i>My kind of town</i></dd> <dd><i>I don't know how</i></dd> <dd><i>Anyone could put you down</i></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crime">Crime</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <span class="anonymous-show"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASlough&preload=Template%3ASubmit+an+edit+request%2Fpreload&action=edit&section=new&editintro=Template%3AEdit+protected%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=Protected+edit+request+on+31+March+2025&preloadparams%5B%5D=edit+fully-protected&preloadparams%5B%5D=Slough">making an edit request</a></span></span><span class="user-show"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slough&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a> </span>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Slough has a relatively high crime rate; figures for all crime categories are annually above the English average and figures for a few categories are at more than double the frequency.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/British_Crime_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="British Crime Survey">British Crime Survey</a> statistics, as of September 2013, Slough had the second worst rate of crime among local authority areas in the Thames Valley Police counties (87 recorded crimes per 1,000 population vs Oxford's 104).<sup id="cite_ref-auto_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However the borough's crime rate reduced by 29% in the ten years to 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-sloughexpress_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sloughexpress-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the year ending September 2017, the crime rate in Slough was the third highest in the Thames Valley force area, behind Reading (96.42 police recorded crimes per 1000 population) and Oxford (100.71 for the same metric).<sup id="cite_ref-auto_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Slough" title="List of people from Slough">List of people from Slough</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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title="Aylesbury">Aylesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basildon" title="Basildon">Basildon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basingstoke" title="Basingstoke">Basingstoke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billericay" title="Billericay">Billericay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Stortford" title="Bishop's Stortford">Bishop's Stortford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borehamwood" title="Borehamwood">Borehamwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bracknell" title="Bracknell">Bracknell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentwood,_Essex" title="Brentwood, Essex">Brentwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgess_Hill" title="Burgess Hill">Burgess Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camberley" title="Camberley">Camberley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canvey_Island" title="Canvey Island">Canvey Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Kent" title="Chatham, Kent">Chatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshunt" title="Cheshunt">Cheshunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dartford" title="Dartford">Dartford</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Addlestone" title="Addlestone">Addlestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amersham" title="Amersham">Amersham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashtead" title="Ashtead">Ashtead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baldock" title="Baldock">Baldock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaconsfield" title="Beaconsfield">Beaconsfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkhamsted" title="Berkhamsted">Berkhamsted</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broxbourne" title="Broxbourne">Broxbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckhurst_Hill" title="Buckhurst Hill">Buckhurst Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bushey" title="Bushey">Bushey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chertsey" title="Chertsey">Chertsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesham" title="Chesham">Chesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chigwell" title="Chigwell">Chigwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corringham,_Essex" title="Corringham, Essex">Corringham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croxley_Green" title="Croxley Green">Croxley Green</a></li> 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