- published: 02 Oct 2014
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Slough (i/ˈslaʊ/) is a town in Berkshire, England, about 20 miles (30 kilometres) west of central London. It is bisected by the A4 and the Great Western Main Line. In 2011, the population of Slough was 140,200 and the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom outside London, with the highest proportion of religious adherents in England.Historically part of Buckinghamshire, Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate, the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe.
The first recorded uses of the name occur as Slo in 1196, Sloo in 1336, and Le Slowe, Slowe or Slow in 1437. It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between Upton to the east and Chalvey to the west, roughly around the "Crown Crossroads" where the road to Windsor (now the A332) met the Great West Road. The Domesday Survey of 1086 refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. During the 13th century, King Henry III had a palace at Cippenham. Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325, while St Mary the Virgin Church in Langley was probably built in the late 11th or early 12th century, though it has been rebuilt and enlarged several times.
More convenient that a Tesco express
Close to Windsor but the properties less
Keeps the businesses of Britain great
It's got Europe's biggest trading estate
It doesn't matter where you're from
You wanna work? Then come along
The station's just got a new floor
And the motorway runs by your door
And you know just where you're heading
It's equidistance 'tween London and Reading
Oh Slough
My kind of town
I don't know how, anyone could put you down
To the West you got Taplow and Bray
You got Hillingdon the other way
It's a brilliant place to live and work
It was in Bucks now officially it's Berks
Don't listen to what the critics say
Like it's soulless, and boring and grey
See for yourself, what you waiting for?
We're on the Bath road, that's the A4
And you know just where you'll be heading
It's equidistance 'tween London and Reading
Oh Slough
My kind of town
I don't know how, anyone could put you down
Oh Slough
My kind of town
I don't know how, anyone could put you down
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