Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

William Ponsonby, before leading the British cavalry charge, tells Uxbridge that his father had been killed in battle by lancers, not least because he had been riding an inferior horse: in fact his father had been a politician who died of natural causes back in England, and he is simply foretelling his own fate in the battle.

* June 27 – Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a town.

Just before Uxbridge is Cowley Peachey junction, where the Slough Arm branches off westward.

Leading off Acton High Street is Acton Hill on the Uxbridge Road which is home to Thai Nice, the very popular North China Restaurant and the new " Little French Restaurant ".

* Botanist John Lightfoot ( 1735-1788 ) lived in Uxbridge from 1767 and is buried in Cowley

Further east still and back across on the north side of the Uxbridge Road at the junction of Hanwell Broadway is the " Duke of York " This became an important staging point for stagecoaches on their way between Oxford and London.

It is situated on the north side of the Uxbridge Road on the former common land of East Field.

* Al Bowlly, singer, is buried with other WW2 bombing victims in a mass grave in the City of Westminster Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell.

Although there is no eponymous tube or railway station in Harefield, buses in the area link to Northwood and Uxbridge tube stations and Denham and Rickmansworth railway stations.

Harefield is served by route 331 operating between Uxbridge and Ruislip, and route U9 between Uxbridge and Harefield Hospital.

Local businesses include a number of furniture shops including Chaplins, which holds the largest selection of contemporary designer furniture in Europe, plus numerous restaurants including Italian ( for example, there is a branch of ASK on the Uxbridge Road ), Greek, Chinese, American and Indian.

A charter of Henry II gives the name as Hestune, meaning " enclosed settlement ", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of Staines, between the ancient Roman road to Bath, and the Uxbridge Road to Oxford.

The main east west road through the town is Uxbridge Road ( A4020 ), though the name changes in the main shopping area to The Broadway and for an even shorter section to High Street.

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

Within the borough, Uxbridge is split into two wards: Uxbridge North and Uxbridge South.

To satisfy this demand a large number of inns were situated along the Uxbridge Road, where horses could be changed and travellers refresh themselves, prompting its favour by highwaymen.

The main thoroughfares are Uxbridge Road, Goldhawk Road and Askew Road, all containing a large number of small and mostly independent shops, pubs and restaurants.

West Ealing boasted its own large cinema at the Uxbridge Road end of Northfield Avenue, which started life as the Kinema in 1913-replacing Ealing Dean Cottage Hospital.

A large house on Cooper's Hill, overlooking Runnymede and the River Thames, has played a number of roles – as the Royal Indian Engineering College ; wartime Post Office headquarters ; storage for the Statue of Eros during World War II ; an emergency teacher training college ; Shoreditch College – a centre for craft and handiwork education – and most recently, Brunel University's design school ( has removed to Uxbridge Main Campus ).

Where Route 16 turns south, the Post Road continues east as Northeast Main Street, which leads to the Uxbridge town line.

The Post Road enters the town from Uxbridge as Hartford Avenue West.

Transport for London, led by then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, proposed to build a West London Tram between Shepherd's Bush and Uxbridge town centre.

The Parliamentary Army garrisoned the town upon the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and later established their headquarters there in June 1647 on a line from Staines to Watford, although the King passed through Uxbridge in April 1946, resting at the Red Lion public house for several hours.

In the early 1900s, the Uxbridge and District Electricity Supply Company was established in Waterloo Road, much of the town was connected by 1902.

A water tower on Uxbridge Common was built in 1906, resembling a church tower, to improve the supply to the town.

Uxbridge High School is a secondary school in the town.

The main campus of Uxbridge College is also in the town.

Uxbridge Belmont Road was the first underground station, built slightly outside of the town centre to allow for a possible extension to High Wycombe.

The town is bounded on the north by Oxford, Sutton and Uxbridge, on the east by Sutton and Uxbridge, on the south by Burrillville, Rhode Island, and on the west by Webster, Massachusetts and a small portion of Thompson, Connecticut.

The town was originally, including the modern-day towns of Milford, Bellingham, Hopedale, Uxbridge, Upton, Blackstone, Northbridge and Millville.

The town was once part of Mendon, from 1667 to 1726, and part of Uxbridge, from 1727 to 1772.

Uxbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

Uxbridge played key roles in women's rights by granting town meeting voting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and the right to serve on juries to Massachusetts's first women jurors, and playing minor roles in the narratives of American Revolution soldier, Deborah Sampson, and abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.

A second, larger-scale protest took place in the central Massachusetts town of Uxbridge, in Worcester County, on Feb. 3, 1783, when a mob seized property that had been confiscated by a local constable and returned it to its owners.

The town is located at the junction of the A355 road from Slough and Beaconsfield, the A404 road that links Maidenhead, High Wycombe and Harrow, the A416 road from Chesham and Berkhamsted and the A413 road, which runs from Aylesbury to Uxbridge.

This was in a New England town meeting and she voted on at least three occasions in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

The Lock and its surrounding areas were filmed at Yeading Marina, shots of the town centre of Charnham were in Uxbridge, and wooded areas featured Ruislip, Denham and Iver among others.

* Sandy Hook, Ontario, a community in the town of Uxbridge, Ontario

The community's oldest building, the Uxbridge Friends Meeting House, was built in 1820 and overlooks the town from Quaker Hill, a kilometre to the west.

The parish flanks the Greater London border in the vicinity of Uxbridge for several miles, and it is to the east of the town of Slough.