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Upton-cum-Chalvey

Upton
St. Laurence Upton, Slough - geograph.org.uk - 71130.jpg
St. Laurence in Upton, Slough
Upton is located in Berkshire
Upton
Upton
Upton shown within Berkshire
OS grid reference SU979792
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SLOUGH
Postcode district SL1
Dialling code 01753
Police Thames Valley
Fire Royal Berkshire
Ambulance South Central
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UK
England
Berkshire
51°30′14″N 0°35′20″W / 51.504°N 0.589°W / 51.504; -0.589Coordinates: 51°30′14″N 0°35′20″W / 51.504°N 0.589°W / 51.504; -0.589

Upton is a suburb of Slough in Berkshire, England. Until the local government reforms of 1974 it was in Buckinghamshire. It was 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 took its name from its situation at the top of the slope from the river terrace — the various levels in the area having been formed in the Ice-Age.

The ancient parish, and the civil parish until 1894, included Chalvey and Slough, originally hamlets, and was formally known as Upton cum Chalvey. In 1894 the new civil parish of Slough was formed from the parish. In 1895 a detached part of the parish was transferred to Gerrards Cross, and in 1900 and 1901 the rump of the parish was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Eton, Langley Marish, Slough and Wexham. The ecclesiastical parish is still known as Upton cum Chalvey.

Upton's Norman Church, St Laurence's Church, is around 900 years old. It was the marriage place (7 May 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 Court is the name of the original manorial buildings for the parish of Upton. Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325. In the 19th century, it was a seat of the Burton family and was, up until March 2010, home to the Slough Observer newspaper. The nearby Slough Grammar School changed its name in 2013 to Upton Court Grammar School.


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