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Dist:0.2km<br/>Built between 1860 and 1861 to the designs of the well-known church architect G E Street, the church was constructed to serve the hamlet of Chalvey, which at that time was completely separate from Slough.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>This imposing building can be seen for miles around, especially from the M4 and the road from Windsor. This photo is taken looking SW from the A355.
©Darren Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>Chalvey is one of Slough's major Asian origin conurbations. Its main street has the Slough-Windsor railway bridge passing across, and contains many independent shops with signs in Arabic and Punjabi, as well as English.
©Darren Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>All the old Ordnance Survey 6" to the mile maps from 1900 through to 1938 show the stream in use in this area for watercress beds, fed by three springs on the bank to the left.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Located at the rear of Slough Borough Council's Chalvey depot is this modern salt dome building. These circular buildings with wooden roofs are specifically designed to store salt to be used on roads during the winter without the salt being damaged by dampness during storage and by minimizing the risk of salt being leached into the ground or into the drainage system. They are also designed to enable the efficient delivery of the salt by HGVs and then the quick and efficient loading of distribution gritting vehicles.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The M4 motorway westbound at Junction 6, the Windsor/Slough turn off.
©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the Windsor junction 6 at Slough.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.5km<br/>One of Slough Community Leisure's venues, the latest attractions at the arena http://www.sloughleisure.com/sia/index.html are foamtastic evenings and ice karting. The arena is also the home of Slough Jets http://www.sloughjets.co.uk/ ice hockey team who play in the English Premier Ice Hockey League. This view was taken from the top of [[1114264]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from a moving vehicle (you wouldn't want to be up here on foot) but a rare view of the royal residence from the M4 flyover north of Windsor: blink and you miss it.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The 1881 Ordnance Survey map describes this earthwork as The Mount, a Supposed Barrow. At that time the Mount was the main feature in the hamlet of Salt Hill. The urban sprawl of Slough had yet to consume it. However the mound's main claim to fame is that until 1844 it was the destination of the Eton Montem when every Whit Tuesday the boys of Eton College [[345572]] marched, army-style, to the location collecting 'salt' or money from visitors and passers-by. The ceremony dated back until at least 1561 and was regularly patronized by Royalty. In its later years it became a triennial event, with the tickets to the 1838 event costing one shilling. However in 1844 the masters of the College decided that the boys should be studying rather than indulging time in making their Montem costumes, decided that the ceremony was anachronistic and should be abandoned forthwith. In truth the real reason for its demise was that with the advent of the railways the ceremonies of 1841 and 1844 had attracted rowdy crowds brought by train from London, and the authorities feared that a serious riot could break out in a subsequent event. The Times, reporting the 1844 event tongue-in-cheek, described the crowd as "mixed"... Evidently the hoi-polloi were not to be welcomed. One wonders what would happen today if the ceremony was to be revived...!
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Chalvey Bridge had to be constructed in order to take the new Jubilee River under the existing 1849-built Slough to Windsor & Eton Central railway line. The opportunity was taken to incorporate a public footpath and maintenance vehicle crossing too. These are on this side of the bridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Slough fire station, Tuns Lane, Slough, Berkshire
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.6km<br/>Roadworks on the A355 at the junction 6 of the M4.
©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.6km<br/>Much of the original railway infrastructure on this line has been swept away through the years, but this little bridge is an interesting survivor. When the line was built in 1849 it had to accommodate the crossing of a public path between Eton and Chalvey. This bridge was built to fulfil that purpose. The original route of the footpath has been lost to the construction of the Jubilee River and the A322 road, but the bridge now provides walkers and cyclists a crossing of the railway along the south side of the Jubilee River. National Cycle Network Route 61 passes through this bridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Viewed from the new Chalvey Bridge over the Jubilee River, a two-coach shuttle train from Slough heads for Windsor & Eton Central, so named to differentiate it from Windsor Riverside station which is on a different line entirely. The line was constructed by the Great Western Railway, supposedly in order to provide a railway route between Windsor Castle and London for Queen Victoria. It was opened in 1849. The facilities on the line have been cut back through the years and it is now single track only. Interestingly though it is evident that this bridge was built with sufficient space to support a second track. The train service is currently operated by First Great Western. The journey takes 6 minutes, and the train operates on a 20 minute weekday timetable. The distant overbridge carries the A322 road.
©Nigel Cox

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