Slough

Slough, a town of Buckinghamshire, 18½ miles W. of London and 2½ NNE. of Windsor. It has grown from a mere village since the railway epoch, and is a well-built place, the seat since 1863 of the British Orphan Asylum; but it will always be chiefly remembered as the home of Sir William Herschel from 1786 till his death, and thereafter till 1840 of his son, Sir John. Stoke Poges and the Burnham Beeches, both noticed separately, are near. Pop. (1861) 3425; (1891) 5427. See Phipps's History of Upton-cum-Chalvey (Slough, 1886), the parish in which Slough is chiefly situated.