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Local Information for Slough

Slough is a town and unitary authority in the county of Berkshire in the south of England. In the 2001 census the population was 119,070.

Original villages which now form suburbs of modern-day Slough are: Britwell, Chalvey, Cippenham, Colnbrook, Langley, Poyle, Upton, Wexham and much of Burnham.

Most of the area was traditionally part of Buckinghamshire and formed over many years by the amalgamation of villages along the Great West Road between London and Bath and Bristol. The first recorded uses of the name occur as Slo in 1196, Sloo in 1336, and Le Slowe, Slowe or Slow in 1437. The name may have derived from the various sloughs (wetland) in the area; although some people think it may refer instead to Sloe bushes growing in the vicinty. Pubs and Coaching Inns grew up along the Great West Road to service the traffic between London and the West. Most people in the area lived in the joint parish of Upton and Chalvey, termed Upton-cum-Chalvey.

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