Slough England
City of
Slough England
Like other Berkshire towns, particularly Maidenhead,
Slough was an important stage on the routes between London and Bath and
Bristol. It was in fact the second stopover out of the capital. In 1718,
an enterprising local man called Thomas Baldwin, owner of the Crown Inn,
started providing a daily service along to Bath and Bristol.
The railway transformed Slough perhaps more than any other
village in Berkshire. When it arrived in 1849, the farm that it cut off from the
rest of the village was eventually lost altogether. The town meanwhile acted as
the railway terminal for Windsor for thirteen years, before the royal town
acquired its own station, and became a fashionable place to live.
Official City of
Slough England
website: www.Slough.gov.uk
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