Salt Hill

Salt Hill is a district within the unitary authority of Slough in Berkshire in the south of England, close to London.

[1] In 1807, the French nobleman Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier died here of tuberculosis on the way from London to Devon.

[1] On 1 January 1845, John Tawell, who had recently returned from Australia, murdered his lover, Sarah Hart, at Salt Hill by poisoning her with prussic acid.

With various officials in chase, Tawell fled to Slough railway station and boarded a train to Paddington.

He, along with fellow Utilitarian Charles Hay Cameron had been responsible for the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission Help report, which brought constitutional government to Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) and marks the beginning of the modern era in that country.