23 Facts About Uxbridge

Uxbridge is a suburban town in West London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Uxbridge formed part of the parish of Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex, and was a significant local commercial centre from an early time.

Uxbridge is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of the 11th century, but a hundred years later St Margaret's Church, was built.

Charles I met with representatives of Parliament at the Crown Inn in Uxbridge in 1645, but negotiations for the end of hostilities were unsuccessful due in part to the king's stubborn attitude.

The development of Uxbridge declined after the opening of the Great Western Railway in 1838, which passed through West Drayton.

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In 2002 the dry ski slope near Park Road and the Uxbridge Lido was closed and the remaining buildings and structures removed.

Uxbridge is known from tithe assignments to the vicar of Hillingdon in 1281 and hundreds of later documents as a chapelry in the large parish of Hillingdon; the town core was only upgraded to a full parish in 1827.

Uxbridge was in the first main wave of the new, secular system of civil parishes, gaining such a council and territory in 1866, and, at the usual time for a town, an Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894.

Uxbridge gave its name to a parliamentary constituency from 1885 until the similar weight of any other part included was simple enough to express, which happened as Greater London developed.

Uxbridge's forerunners are John Randall until 2015 and Sir Michael Shersby, who died shortly after the 1997 general election.

Landscape upon which the settlement of Uxbridge was established is largely unchanged from the Mesolithic era.

River Pinn runs through Uxbridge, passing through the former site of RAF Uxbridge and the grounds of Brunel University.

Uxbridge South is projected as having more Black and Chinese residents, than any other Hillingdon ward.

Uxbridge North saw its most common category of employment as those in management, as at the 2001 and 2011 census.

Uxbridge returned to consecrate and open the church on the feast day of saints Philip and James, 1 May 1865.

Uxbridge has two shopping centres, The Pavilions and The Chimes .

Primary schools in Uxbridge include Hermitage Primary School, St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitehall Infant School, and Whitehall Junior School.

Uxbridge High School is a comprehensive secondary school in the town.

Uxbridge is home to Brunel University and the Buckinghamshire New University's nursing campus.

Uxbridge is connected by major roads to Slough, Denham, Ickenham, Cowley, Iver Heath, Hillingdon Heath and Hayes.

Uxbridge had a Royal Air Force station, known as RAF Uxbridge, until its closure on 31 March 2010.

Uxbridge has a Non-League football team, Uxbridge F C, which plays at Honeycroft, Yiewsley.

Uxbridge Cricket Club is based in Uxbridge and is a member of the Middlesex County Cricket League, a designated ECB Premier League.