Slough, England
The Betjeman Blast Zone
"Come Friendly Bombs, Fall on... Wait, We Rebuilt Anyway"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield quartered by the Slough Trading Estate's chimney stacks and a fibre-optic cable rampant, surmounted by a train departing at speed toward London, with a banner beneath reading 'Nolo Manere' (Latin for 'I do not wish to stay').
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Stayed here for a work trip to the Trading Estate and honestly the retail park has everything you need except a reason to stay longer than one night. The train station is genuinely brilliant for getting to Paddington in 15 minutes, which tells you everything about the local strategy. Saw the Observatory sign and got briefly excited before remembering it's an office park, not stargazing. Three stars purely for the Elizabeth line access, docked two for making me look up John Betjeman's poem and feel personally attacked on the town's behalf."— BarryFromBracknell_TravelsForWork
Property Listing
Nestled in the vibrant Thames Valley corridor, this dynamic commuter powerhouse offers UNBEATABLE 15-minute access to Paddington via the Elizabeth line, meaning you barely have to experience the town at all! Surrounded by the thriving Trading Estate and O2's UK HQ, this is a savvy investment for the discerning buyer who values proximity to Heathrow over literally anything else.
Twinned With
Milton Keynes — Both towns built their entire identity around being brilliantly connected to somewhere else, and both are tired of the poem/roundabout jokes respectively.
Supporting Evidence
Slough's Trading Estate is one of the largest business parks in single private ownership in Europe, and it genuinely helped rebuild the town's economy after John Betjeman's 1937 poem 'Slough' wished for it to be flattened by bombs.