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Dist:0.2km<br/>A sliver of countryside slices through the western end of the Britwell estate.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.2km<br/>The tower belongs to St George's church, which is hidden behind the new housing. That's a new development called Venus Close.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.5km<br/>The concrete columns to the left of the footpath are anti-traveller barriers.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Shops and flats at the run-down heart of the Britwell estate.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:1.0km north<br/>
©Martyn Davies
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>Taken at the junction with Green Lane looking west along The Fairway.
©David Kemp
Dist:1.2km south<br/>The bright red and white sign is shown in [[206676]]; the housing there is just off to the left here. The main road is Buckingham Avenue; the nearest side road, Burnham Lane, has just emerged from beneath the main Paddington railway line, from which this was taken. The premises on the right are occupied by a water treatment firm.
©Derek Harper
Dist:1.2km south<br/>New affordable residential apartment development in Buckingham Avenue for keyworkers and Slough residents, their website is here http://www.chg.org.uk/homes/prioryheights/index2.html . The "Slough Trading Estate" sign marks the western end of the estate.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>Blocks of flats behind Burnham station, seen from a train leaving the station for Taplow, hence the reflections.
©Derek Harper
Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>View eastward, towards Paddington; ex-Great Western, Paddington - Reading etc. main line. Note that this station has platforms only on the Relief lines.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>This was until recently the private power station for Slough Trading Estate. This has been supplying heat and power to the estate since 1920. Originally coal fired, it has now gone over to predominantly biomass (wood) firing. There is also some natural gas and heavy fuel oil in the mix. The modern building on the right houses a wood briquetting plant. The tall building in front of the chimney houses one of the modern wood fired plants including a Peter Brotherhood steam turbine with roof mounted air-cooled condenser. The tall building beyond the chimney houses two fluidised bed boilers that originally burnt coal but now burn wood. Older buildings house further older boilers (gas fired) and the four remaining steam turbines (one Siemens, one Brotherhood and two by C A Parsons. There is also a John Brown gas turbine of 23 MW. The two cooling towers are also part of the plant although there is also pass-out steam at 14 bar to other users on the estate. It was recently acquired by Scottish & Southern, presumably to improve their CO2 emissions as it is biomass fired.
©Chris Allen
Dist:1.3km south<br/>One way traffic only (in this direction) is allowed through this skewed bridge which takes the road under the main line railway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km west<br/>View from St Peter's Church Tower of The Priory, Burnham, lined up with Windsor Castle in the distance. The United Reformed Church is the octagonal building with the copper roof on the right. The roof of the Working Men's Club is in the foreground, and the Garibaldi pub car park is on the left.
©Mary McCarthy
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>The nearer chimney is refractory lined as it receives hot gas turbine exhaust. The turbine can be operated open cycle or combined cycle. The tall light building houses the "fibre-fuel" (www.fibrefuel.co.uk) fired installation and the large pipe up the end is the exhaust from a big Peter Brotherhood turbine that is on its way to an air cooled roof mounted condenser. This is a fascinating plant with many unique features and is well worth a visit if you are in to that sort of thing. Interior photos are not for Geograph but are available on request.
©Chris Allen
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>
©Kevin White

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