Upton, Slough
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Once a small village, Upton is now a suburb of the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire, having been one of the villages that developed into the town. The Domesday Survey of 1086, refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. Upton, with its Norman Church, was situated at the top of the slope from the river terrace — the various levels in the area having been formed in the Ice-Age.
St Laurence's Church is around 900 years old. Parts of Upton Court (home to the Slough Observer newspaper now) were built in 1325. It has a 19th century half-timbered building called "The Mere".
The parish church of St Laurence, Upton was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly-erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium.
Upton Park forms one of Slough's earliest planned estates. Laid out in 1842, the grounds (a public park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by Joseph Paxton.[1]
[edit] Notes and References
- ^ p 144, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, Slough, 1973
