Slough

Slough is located in Berkshire, England, and is both a town and an unparished territory inside the unitary authority that shares its name. It shares a boundary with Greater London. Buckinghamshire is home to the town of Slough, which may be found in that county. Slough is situated 19 miles (31 kilometres) to the north-east of Reading and 32 kilometres (51 miles) to the west of downtown London (Charing Cross). At the crossroads of the M4, M40, and M25 motorways, it is located in the Thames Valley and is part of the London metropolitan region. It was anticipated that there were 164,793 people living in the built-up area subdivision in the year 2020. In the year 2011, there were 140,713 people living in the district.

Slough has one of the most ethnically varied populations in the United Kingdom as a result of its history of luring workers from all over the globe and the nation since the 1920s. This trend has contributed to Slough's development into a significant financial and commercial hub. In 2017, the unemployment rate was 1.4%, which is one-third lower than the average of 4.5% for the UK.

Outside of the capital city, the largest concentration of UK headquarters of international corporations may be found in Slough. Slough Trading Estate is the biggest industrial estate in Europe that is owned by a single entity, and it is home to more than 17,000 employment spread over 400 companies. The town is home to the headquarters of a number of companies, including Blackberry, McAfee, Burger King, DHL, Telefonica, and Lego.

Slo was the form of the name that was first documented in 1195. It initially seems to have been used to refer to a hamlet that was located between Upton in the east and Chalvey in the west, more or less close to the area known as the "Crown Crossroads," which was the intersection where the road to Windsor (now known as the A332) met the Great West Road. Upton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, along with a wood that had enough space for 200 pigs and was worth £15 at the time. Cippenham was as the location of King Henry III's palace during the 13th century. The year 1325 saw the construction of a portion of Upton Court, while St. Mary the Virgin Church in Langley was most likely erected in the late 11th or early 12th century, despite the fact that it has been reconstructed and expanded on several occasions.

Heathrow Airport, which is located around 5 miles (or 8 kilometres) east of Slough's town centre, serves as the Met Office weather monitoring station that is closest to Slough. It is well known that this particular region of the Thames Valley is distinguished by having, on average, the hottest daytime temperatures throughout the summer months across all of the British Isles. The normals for the period between 1981 and 2010 show that the highest temperature in July is typically 23.5 degrees Celsius (74.3 degrees Fahrenheit).

The annual rainfall is less than 600 millimetres (23.62 inches), and only 105 days are recorded as having more than 1 millimetre of precipitation. This is a relatively low amount of precipitation when compared to the rest of the British Isles.