From the records: “The Domesday Survey of 1086 refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15.”

From the records: “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.”

From the records: “Robert Taylor LibrarySuters Limited in Slough High Street, 1978 The town's name was first recorded in 1195 as Slo.”

From the records: “During the 13th century, King Henry III had a palace at Cippenham.”

From the records: “Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325.”

From the records: “From the mid-17th century, stagecoaches passed through Slough and Salt Hill, later absorbed into Slough, as locations to change horses on the journey out from London.”

From the records: “Until the town developed as an industrial area, nurseries were prominent in the local economy; the Cox's Orange Pippin apple was first raised in Colnbrook (not then within Slough) around 1825, and the dianthus "Mrs Sinkins Pink" was first raised at some point between 1868 and 1883 by John Sinkins, the master of the Eton Union Workhouse, which lay in Slough.”

From the records: “The first section of the Great Western Railway (GWR), between the original station at Paddington and the original station at Maidenhead, opened on 4 June 1838, but although trains stopped at Slough, there was no actual station: tickets were sold at the Crown Inn.”

From the records: “However, a station was built and opened by June 1840, and Queen Victoria made her first ever railway journey, from Slough station to Bishop's Bridge near Paddington, on 13 June 1842 - some three years after her husband Prince Albert who had first travelled from the trackside at Slough to Paddington on 14 November 1839.”

From the records: “The park has been in existence from at least 1843, when James Bedborough bought the land in the area and used it to build twenty-nine terraced houses and large villas that looked out over the park.”

From the records: “In September 1851, William Thomas Buckland, an auctioneer and surveyor from nearby Wraysbury, began livestock sales in a field near the Great Western Road Railway Station belonging to the North Star Inn.”

From the records: “In 1843 the development of Upton Park began, while from 1866 to 1868, Charles Dickens rented Elizabeth Cottage on the High Street, under the name of Charles Tringham.”

From the records: “On 8 September 1884 the original station was closed and replaced by the present station, situated 220 yards (200 m) to the west of the old.”

From the records: “"Station Jim" (or Dog Jim), based at Slough railway station, was a Canine Collector for the Great Western Railway Widows and Orphans Fund from 1894 until his death in 1896.”

From the records: “In June 1918, land to the west of Slough (now in Berkshire) and adjacent to the Great Western Railway main line, mainly forming part of Cippenham Court Farm, but also including the site of an isolation hospital, was bought by the government to form a motor repair depot for army transport.”

From the records: “In April 1920, the Government sold the site and its contents to the Slough Trading Co.”

From the records: “Ford built D Series and Cargo lorries at its factory in Langley (a former Hawker Aircraft site) from 1936 to the 1950s until the site was redeveloped for housing in the 1990s.”

From the records: “The new town and the factories being built drew a protest poem in 1937 from John Betjeman, called Slough, beginning "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough...".”

From the records: “During the Second World War, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940.”

From the records: “Between 1955 and 1957 the town was the site of the Slough experiment, a large-scale road safety trial.”

From the records: “In the 1960s, Gerry Anderson's film company was based in Slough, and his Supermarionation series, including Thunderbirds, were filmed there.”

From the records: “In 2000, the water in the lakes suddenly disappeared, and a group was set up called Friends of Herschel Park, who together with Slough Borough Council started to apply for funds to return the park to its original Victorian design.”

From the records: “Slough has services on the Elizabeth line, a new railway line across central London that opened in 2022.”

From the records: “SEGRO has developed more than 30 data centres at Slough Trading Estate, making it one of Europe’s largest data centre clusters in 2026.”