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15-642: Upton may refer to: Places [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] England [ edit ] Upton, Slough , Berkshire (in Buckinghamshire until 1974) Upton, Buckinghamshire , a hamlet near Aylesbury Upton, Huntingdonshire , Cambridgeshire Upton, Peterborough , Cambridgeshire Upton, Halton , a location in Cheshire Upton-by-Chester , Cheshire Upton, Cornwall , Linkinhorne Upton, Bude–Stratton ,

30-480: A location in Cornwall Upton, Cumbria Upton, East Devon Upton, South Hams , Devon Upton, Torquay , Devon Upton Hellions , Devon Upton Pyne , Devon Upton, Dorset Upton, East Riding of Yorkshire , a location Tetbury Upton , Gloucestershire, former name Upton Hawkesbury Upton , Gloucestershire Upton Cheyney , Gloucestershire Upton, north Test Valley , Hampshire,

45-501: A location in Somerset Upton Noble , Somerset Upton, Warwickshire Upton, West Yorkshire Upton, Wiltshire , near East Knoyle Upton Lovell , Wiltshire Upton Scudamore , Wiltshire Upton-upon-Severn , Worcestershire Wales [ edit ] Upton, Pembrokeshire United States [ edit ] Upton, Indiana Upton, Kentucky Upton, Maine Upton, Baltimore , Maryland,

60-631: A hamlet approximately 7 miles north of Andover Upton, south Test Valley , Hampshire, a hamlet near Southampton, towards the northern end of the M271 motorway Upton Grey , Hampshire, a village and civil parish near Basingstoke Upton, Isle of Wight , a location Upton, Thanet , a location in Broadstairs, Kent Upton, Leicestershire Upton, Lincolnshire Upton, Bexley , London Upton, Merseyside Upton (Wirral ward) , an electoral ward of Wirral Council Upton, Newham , in

75-422: A list of people with the name Upton (automobile) , an American car produced 1904–1907 See also [ edit ] Upton station (disambiguation) Upton House (disambiguation) Upton Park (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Upton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

90-454: A neighborhood Upton (Baltimore, Maryland) , a historic house Upton, Massachusetts , a New England town Upton (CDP), Massachusetts , the main village in the town Upton, Missouri Upton, New York , home of Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton County, Texas Upton, Wyoming Elsewhere [ edit ] Upton, Cork , Ireland Upton, Quebec , Canada Other uses [ edit ] Upton (name) , including

105-504: Is a 19th-century half-timbered building, built in 1887 by the grandson of Richard Bentley , is now the head office of the National Foundation for Educational Research . Long Close School was established in the area in 1940. Upton Park forms one of Slough's earliest planned estates. Laid out in 1842, the grounds (a public park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by Joseph Paxton . In 2011,

120-525: Is a suburb of Slough , in the Slough district, in the ceremonial county of 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 Book 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 —

135-870: The London Borough of Newham Upton (UK Parliament constituency) , a former parliamentary constituency that existed from 1918 to 1950 Upton (Newham ward) , a former electoral ward of Newham London Borough Council that existed from 1964 to 2002 Upton, Norfolk Upton Fen , Norfolk Upton with Fishley , a civil parish in Norfolk Upton, Northamptonshire Upton, Bassetlaw , Nottinghamshire Upton, Newark and Sherwood , Nottinghamshire Upton, Vale of White Horse , Oxfordshire (in Berkshire until 1974) Upton, West Oxfordshire , Oxfordshire Upton Magna , Shropshire Upton, Somerset , Somerset West and Taunton Upton, South Somerset ,

150-512: The 3.5-hectare (8.6-acre) Grade II listed park and nature reserve underwent a restoration project to re-establish the area to its former Victorian glory with a lottery grant of £2.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Friends of Herschel Park, a local conservation group, was created to manage the restoration, as well as to oversee the design and maintenance of the area. The park regularly holds events for adults and children throughout

165-610: 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, having previously been named Upton Grammar School from 1982 to 1993, changed its name in 2013 to Upton Court Grammar School . The Mere

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180-441: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upton&oldid=1219117410 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Upton, Slough Upton

195-461: The parish was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Eton , Langley , 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

210-465: The various levels in the area having been formed in the Last 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

225-524: The year. Upton, West Oxfordshire Upton is a hamlet on the River Windrush about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Burford in Oxfordshire , England. Until 1954 Upton was part of the civil parish of Upton and Signet , which was absorbed into Burford to create the civil parish of Burford and Upton and Signet. The parish had a population of 437 in the 1951 census, the last before

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