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Slough lies on the other side of London's M25 orbital motorway from Heathrow Airport. There are direct rail connections to Heathrow and London Paddington Station. Regular local bus routes serve Slough town centre, Langley and Heathrow.
The town grew on the back of the Slough Trading Estate, established in 1925, the world's first such estate. Whilst ICI and Satchwell Control Systems are still major manufacturers on the estate, many factories have been replaced by offices for companies such as Mars, Nintendo, Black and Decker, and Amazon. Many of the town's 120,000 population also work in the European HQ's of several IT companies, such as O2, which have based themselves there.
Just to the south of Slough is the famous Eton School and Windsor Castle.