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Once a small Village , Upton is now a Suburb of the Unitary Authority of Slough in Berkshire . The Domesday Survey of 1086 , refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. Upton, with its Norman Church , was situated at the top of the slope from the river terrace — the various levels in the area having been formed in the Ice-Age . St Laurence's Church is around 900 years old. Parts of Upton Court (home to the Slough Observer newspaper now) were built in 1325 . It has a 19th Century half-timbered building called "The Mere". The parish church of St Laurence, Upton was the marriage place ( May 7 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 William Ramsay . |