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Woodland Avenue, SLOUGH, SL1 3BU

Ducks struggle to cope with a frozen surface after a cold January night. Baylis Pond is in what used to be the grounds of Baylis House which now form a public park. The 1881 Edition of the Ordnance Survey mapping shows the pond with a far more formal rectangular shape. At some point the south-western corner has been filled in, all the other corners rounded off, and some bird-nesting islands introduced.

A view of Image seen from the other side near Woodlands Avenue.

This gateway leads into the former walled garden of nearby Baylis House, a late 17C country house. The house is now a hotel but the walled garden along with the rest of the grounds is part of a big area of park and playing fields.

This Sikh temple is by Woodlands Avenue opposite Baylis Grounds.

Godolphin Recreation Ground is to the north-west of Baylis House, one of the previous owners of which was Dr Henry Godolphin in the early 18th century.

This little C of E church is tucked away on a small plot between a large school and a park.

The subway links Salt Hill Park and Baylis Road under the former Great Western Railway's main line. There are actually two subways here. The far one is the earlier and still carries the main line. The nearer one was built to accommodate a head shunt for the sidings serving Image The trackwork has however long since been removed from this. However the original, and still continuing function, of this hole through the railway embankment was to allow the passage of Salt Hill Stream, which is now culverted itself under the subway.

Attractive brick facade with its regular grid of windows. Pretty much all the ornament is expressed by means of the brickwork, e.g. the arches over the ground-floor windows. It was built c1696 for Gregory Hascard, Dean of Windsor, and altered and enlarged in the C18th and C19th. Grade I listed. It is now a hotel, restaurant and conference centre. The date of the photo is uncertain.