Hillingdon Athletics Club ( an amalgamation of the Ruislip-Northwood and Uxbridge clubs ), has attracted many athletes from Ickenham since its foundation in the 1960s.

Uxbridge Cricket Club moved from Cricketfield Road in 1971 to make way for the new Civic Centre.

The Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground and Uxbridge fire station were relocated as part of the new development, which became controversial due to both its size and cost.

* Rotary Club of Uxbridge

The club also plays some games around the county at the Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground and The Old Deer Park in Richmond.

They fielded 22 players against an Uxbridge Cricket Club XI, but still lost by an innings.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

He was taken to Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, where for a time his life was believed to be in danger.

Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the Blackstone Valley at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in the U. S. ( The first was in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.

Sykes's small office above a grocer's shop at 130 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, was shared from around 1953 by Milligan.

Trusted by the popular party, Pembroke was made governor of the Isle of Wight, and he was one of the representatives of the parliament on several occasions, notably during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645 and at Newport in 1648, and when the Scots surrendered Charles in 1647.

For two years from 1939 the 8-car Uxbridge line trains were extended from Aldgate but this caused operational problems, and from 1941 Barking was again served by Hammersmith & City trains.

From 1836 to 10 September 1962 there was a railway line between West Drayton and Uxbridge, with an intermediate station at Cowley ( opened 1 October 1904 ).

The Uxbridge Road ( then known as the Oxford Road ) was turnpiked between Uxbridge and Tyburn in 1714.

The cars cost £ 1, 000 each yet the ordinary fare from Shepherd's Bush to Uxbridge was only 8 < sup > d </ sup >.

A tram depot ( later converted into a trolleybus depot and then into a bus garage ) was located on the Uxbridge Road.

Feltham Swimming Baths was built on parkland beside the Uxbridge Road in 1965, later refurbished and renamed Feltham Airparcs Leisure Centre .. That public sports facility was renamed in 2010 as Hanworth Air Park Leisure Centre & Library

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.

Ickenham had a parish council but came within the Uxbridge Rural District until 1925, when this was absorbed into the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge.

Ickenham was within the Uxbridge constituency until boundary changes at the 2010 general election meant it became part of the new Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner constituency, represented by Nick Hurd MP.

In 2007, Cadbury Schweppes announced that it was moving to Uxbridge, London Borough of Hillingdon, to cut costs.

A turnpike gate was constructed at the foot of the hill on the main road from London to Uxbridge, now Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Holland Park Avenue along this part of its route.

For Poor Law it was grouped into the Uxbridge Union and was within Uxbridge Rural Sanitary District from 1875.

Although not provided for in MoveOntario 2020, GO Transit has also identified possible rail service extensions to many areas, including the Niagara Region, Waterloo Region, Bolton, Pickering, Brantford, Bowmanville, Peterborough and Uxbridge.

The props were constructed by Shawcraft Engineering of Uxbridge, England under the direction of Bill Roberts, who also provided additional design input.

Passenger service on this loop and the main line was provided by cars leased from the Milford and Uxbridge Street Railway.

From this date " Metropolitan line " refers only to the route from Aldgate to Baker Street and then northwards, through " Metro-land " to Amersham with a branch to Uxbridge.

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

In 1901 the first electric trams began to run along the Uxbridge Road, causing the population of the village to expand faster than with the arrival of the trains half a century before.

When Ickenham obtained a railway station on the Metropolitan Railway's line between Harrow and Uxbridge, it brought with it a rail link to London.

Situated the north side of Uxbridge Road on the boundary with Hanwell.

The Office of National Statistics recorded an approximate population figure for Uxbridge North of 12, 357 in 2008, with 12, 967 in Uxbridge South.

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

The Grand Junction Canal opened in 1794 linking Uxbridge with Birmingham.

Uxbridge Lido was extensively refurbished and extended, with work beginning in 2008.

The Grand Union Canal, formerly the Grand Junction Canal, connects London with Birmingham and passes immediately to the west of Uxbridge, forming part of the borough boundary.

The London Borough of Hillingdon's Civic Centre was built in Uxbridge High Street in 1973, as part of an effort to unite the services of the council, which had formed in 1965 with the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District, Hayes and Harlington Urban District and Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District.

Hillingdon Council governs the borough, with its headquarters in the Civic Centre in Uxbridge.

Much of the residential areas were expanded with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Harrow on the Hill to Uxbridge in the early 1900s and the gradual establishment of stops along the line, becoming known as " Metro-land ".

The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with Keith Joseph suggesting " Uxbridge " in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon.

Catawissa is twinned with Uxbridge, Ontario.

Gilbert claimed that the idea for the opera came to him while he was waiting for the train in Uxbridge and spotted an advertisement for The Tower Furnishing and Finance Company, illustrated with a Beefeater.

On the arrival of the deputation at the Treaty of Uxbridge, on 4 January, officers of the Parliamentary army stopped the coaches and searched the gentlemen ; and they found upon the latter " two scandalous books arraigning the proceedings of the House ," and letters with ciphers to Lord Viscount Falkland and the Lord Spencer.

He now bought an estate at Dawley, near Uxbridge, where he renewed his intimacy with Pope, Swift and Voltaire, took part in Pope's literary squabbles, and wrote the philosophy for the Essay on Man.

Hammond was chaplain to the royal commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge ( 30 January 1645 ), where he disputed with Richard Vines, one of the parliamentary envoys.

In 2003 he won the British Blitz Championship held at Uxbridge with a score of 14. 5 / 16 and the Greenland Open rapid tournament with 8½ / 9.

The Central London Railway ( CLR ) opened its subterranean Shepherd's Bush station in 1900, with its entrance overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, next to the MR's Uxbridge Road station.