* Iron Duke is the name of a supervillain character in the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game, based in part on Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the bridge is a grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.

He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

At the top of the flight of locks towards Norwood Green is the Three Bridges designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

St. Mary's Church is at the centre of the old town of Rotherhithe village, which contains various historic buildings including the Brunel Engine House at the south end of the Thames Tunnel.

Brunel died shortly after is completion.

The other notable local construction by Brunel is the Wharncliffe Viaduct which carries the Great Western Railway across the River Brent towards London and which was Brunel's first major structural design.

Uxbridge is a significant retail and commercial centre, and is the location of Brunel University and the Uxbridge campus of Buckinghamshire New University.

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

Today, Hillingdon is home to Heathrow Airport and Brunel University, and is the second largest of the 32 London boroughs.

Of these areas, the borough is further divided into these wards: Barnhill Ward, Botwell Ward, Brunel Ward, Cavendish Ward, Charville Ward, Eastcote and East Ruislip Ward, Harefield Ward, Heathrow Villages Ward, Hillingdon East Ward, Ickenham Ward, Manor Ward, Northwood Hills Ward, Northwood Ward, Pinkwell Ward, South Ruislip Ward, Townfield Ward, Uxbridge North Ward, Uxbridge South Ward, West Drayton Ward, West Ruislip Ward, Yeading Ward, Yiewsley Ward: this link has pointers to maps.

Also within the borough is Brunel University and Uxbridge College's Uxbridge and Hayes campuses.

There is a story which states that Brunel deliberately aligned the tunnel such that the rising sun is visible through it on 9 April each year, his birthday.

It is also asserted that Brunel failed to account for atmospheric refraction and the effect is visible a few days too early.

:... I have found no documentary evidence for the often-repeated story that Brunel aligned the Box Tunnel so that the rising sun shone through it on his birthday, even though careful examination shows that it could indeed do so, and it is certainly a good story.

The Tamar Bridge is located above the Hamoaze, and runs parallel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge ( sometimes referred to as the Brunel Bridge ) which opened in 1859 and is considered to be one of his greatest railway achievements.

Construction started in 1804 to build the tidal New Cut, where it is joined by the River Malago, and divert the Avon along the Feeder Canal to the harbour ; a system designed and built by William Jessop and later improved by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Brunel University ( informally Brunel ) is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom.

It was founded in 1966 and is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

In the RAE Brunel was ranked 37 – 39 ( joint ) for Research Power.

In the 2011 / 12 THES world university rankings, Brunel ranked 251-275 ( shared ), representing a sharp rise in rankings.

Locke ranked alongside Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel as one of the major pioneers of railway development.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

In 1798, during a dinner conversation, Brunel learnt of the difficulties that the Royal Navy had in obtaining the 100, 000 pulley blocks that it required each year to fit out its ships.

While Brunel was building the broad-gauge Great Western Railway, Lardner carried out some experiments with the company ’ s flagship locomotive, North Star.

Brunel and his assistant Daniel Gooch carried out their own experiments on the same locomotive and found that the only problem was that the blast pipe was too small.

Brunel pointed out that Lardner ’ s calculations totally disregarded air-resistance and friction, a basic error.

Brunel attended King's College London from 1859 – 1861, and afterward attained experience in civil engineering through serving out various apprenticeships.

After the Great Western railway was completed, he carried out similar tasks on other railways that Brunel was building.

Philippe Brunel wrote in L ' Equipe that at the end of his long ride to Agen in 1951, " followers were astonished to see him sit up, blow kisses to girls and take out of his pocket a sponge soaked in water.

* Buchanan, R. Angus ( 2002 ) Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hambledon and London, ISBN 1-85285-331-X

After Nightingale sent a plea to The Times for a government solution to the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital which could be built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles.

Brunel traditionally performed well in the annual rankings of UK universities produced by The Guardian and The Times, in part due to its strong performance in the Teaching Quality Assessment ( where Brunel received a score of 20 / 24 or better for every subject assessed ).

In recent years both The Guardian and The Times have ceased using the TQA to compile their rankings ( they use the National Student Survey results instead ) and therefore Brunel has fallen in both rankings.

So when it came to the revolutionary design at Chepstow, The Times of 24 February 1852, reported that “ Mr Stephenson, the eminent engineer, has examined the ( great railway ) bridge ( at Chepstow ) and concurred in the plan adopted by Mr Brunel ...”.

The Times suggested that Marc Brunel had given Coles the idea.

On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).

* Heinz Wolff, now Emeritus Professor of Bioengineering at Brunel University.

The new incarnation of Pulp survived a number of ill-fated gigs ( including one at a rugby club at Brunel University which ended in a riot ) before Allcard left to be replaced on keyboards by Magnus Doyle's sister Candida.

After starting a sports science degree at Brunel University, Adams became the manager of Wycombe Wanderers in November 2003.

Close to Brunel University

Brunel University was built on land formerly occupied by the Lowe & Shawyer plant nursery

Demolition works began in 1962 and the construction of Brunel University commenced.

* Brunel University

In June 1966 Brunel College of Advanced Technology was awarded a Royal Charter and became Brunel University.

This increased the number of courses that Brunel University was able to offer.

In June 2011, Brunel University licensed Creative Barcode, an automated idea sharing platform which protects ownership of early stage ideas.

Since the original Masterplan, the University has spent a further £ 50 million on campus renovation and work is currently underway on the building of a new ' Eastern Gateway ' building, which will house a 400 seat lecture theatre, main reception, the Brunel Business School and the Beldam art gallery.

The governing body of Brunel is the Council, which comprises University staff and students and independent members.

The Brunel Coat of Arms was granted to the University in 1966 and incorporates various images representative of the University's heritage and principles.

For example, the masonry arch symbolises Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the compass and cogwheel symbolise technology, the ermine lozenge is an allusion to the Arms of Lord Halsbury, the first Chancellor of the University and the crest of the swan symbolises Uxbridge.

A view of the Brunel University campus in Uxbridge