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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, 20 miles (32 km) west of central London and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

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The place

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, 20 miles (32 km) west of central London and 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways. It is part of the historic county of Buckinghamshire. In 2021, the population of the town was 143,184. The wider Borough of Slough had a population of 158,500.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Slough

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Windsor Castle

    Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles west of central London. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.

    3 km · historic castle, royal residence at Windsor in Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St George's Chapel, Windsor

    St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a royal peculiar, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter.

    3 km · place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dorney Lake

    Dorney Lake is a purpose-built rowing lake and Meetings & Events Venue in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km west of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames.

    5.6 km · reservoir near Eton and Windsor, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Leonardo's horse

    Leonardo's Horse ) is a project for a bronze sculpture that was commissioned from Leonardo da Vinci in 1482 by the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro, but never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the world, a monument to the duke's father Francesco Sforza.

    3 km · unexecuted sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Frogmore House

    Frogmore House is a 17th-century English country house owned by the Crown Estate. It is a historic Grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    40-foot telescope

    William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long focal length.

    500 m · reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Frogmore Cottage

    Frogmore Cottage is a historic Grade II listed home on the Frogmore estate, which is part of Home Park in Windsor, England. The cottage was described as a 5,089 sq ft, five bedroom and nursery, four bathroom single-residence house in 2020.

    3.6 km · building in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Royal Burial Ground

    The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family. Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

    3.9 km · cemetery used by the British Royal Family, surrounds the Royal Mausoleum on the Frogmore Estate · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    King George VI Memorial Chapel

    The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. It was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for herself and her family, and was completed in 1969.

    3 km · burial place of King George VI of the United Kingdom and his immediate family, located in the St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Royal Mausoleum

    The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Slough Museum

    The Curve, The Curve, 85 High St, SL1 1EA, thecurve@slough.gov.uk.

  2. 02
    Herschel Park

    Herschel Park is a local nature reserve within Upton Park.

From Wikivoyage: Slough, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Slough Ice Arena

    Public skating ice rink with lessons, discos, hockey and karting.

  2. 02
    Bust Out 360

    Unit 10, The Business Village, Wexham Road, SL2 5HF,.

  3. 03
    Jump In Slough

    Jump In is a humungous trampoline park with a foam pit, slam dunk court and a battle beam area.

From Wikivoyage: Slough, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Kashmiri Karahi

    Spacious, 2-floor contemporary curry house and takeaway serving classic and modern Kashmiri dishes.

  2. 02
    Treatz

    Modern spot for desserts including Italian ice cream, waffle baskets, crepes, sundaes and shakes.

  3. 03
    Desi Deera
  4. 04
    Damascene

    The tastes and vibes of Syrian history come to Slough in a form of a restaurant.

From Wikivoyage: Slough, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Slough

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 10 km · London Luton (LTN), 43 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 49 km
Stations
Slough railway station, 500 m · Iver railway station, 5.6 km · Burnham railway station, 4.4 km · Langley railway station, 3.2 km · Windsor & Eton Central railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Slough
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3–4
  • Luton, Luton → Slough
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Slough
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3–4
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Slough

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Slough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    104 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    286 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    426 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    543 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    579 km

If you know how people move in Slough – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Slough

Slough is 20 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Windsortown in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England2.9 km
  • Etontown in Berkshire, England2.7 km
  • Datchetvillage in Berkshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Old Windsorvillage and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England5.4 km
  • Hortonvillage and civil parish in Berkshire, England, UK4.9 km
  • Stoke Pogesvillage and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, UK4.2 km