Cricket matches between the club and local teams from Ickenham and Uxbridge were played within the grounds.

Uxbridge Football Club was provided with the use of the station stadium from 1923 and played evening matches there.

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 ).

He played his first league game in a 2 – 0 loss against Uxbridge three days later.

The Lurkers formed late in 1976 and played their first gig at Uxbridge Technical College in the December supporting Screaming Lord Sutch to an audience of 10!

The station played host to a tragic event on 11 April 2011 when a 43 year old woman named Sarah James, from Uxbridge, Middlesex, kissed an elderly passenger aboard the 16. 25 Northampton to London Euston service which was approaching the station from the north, and set fire to herself within the confines of a train toilet with a can of explosive gas.

Also in 1970, Alexander played Lord Uxbridge in Sergei Bondarchuk's war epic Waterloo.

The two survivors, Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge, an elderly couple ( played by John Anderson and Anne Haney ) refuse assistance and do not want to be rescued.

Uxbridge, a " mini tapestry of early America ", marks the center of the Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor, a key region of America's earliest industrialization.

It also housed the RAF Uxbridge Language School, where Polish Air Force pilots were taught key RAF codewords.

* Mrs Kathleen Lovibond CBE, chairwoman of the Uxbridge juvenile Magistrates ' Court and member of the Conservative women's organisation

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.

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.

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.

It had branches to Uxbridge and Hounslow West, but both are now operated by the Piccadilly line.

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.

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.

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

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.

On 25 September 1905, following lobbying by Ickenham Parish Council, the Metropolitan Railway opened a small halt on their line between Harrow and 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.

Roman roads formed the parish's north-eastern and southern boundaries from Marble Arch: Watling Street ( later Edgware Road ) and the Uxbridge road, known by the 1860s as Bayswater Road.

First horse drawn, then electric trams ( until 1936 ) and, then, electric trolleybuses, gave Southall residents and workers quick and convenient transport along Uxbridge Road in the first half of the 20th century before they were replaced by standard diesel-engined buses in 1960.

By 1800, Uxbridge had become one of the most important market towns in Middlesex, helped by its status as the first stopping point for stagecoaches travelling from London to Oxford.

Harman's Brewery was established in Uxbridge by George Harman in 1763 and moved into its new headquarters in Uxbridge High Street in 1875.

Uxbridge Common was reduced in size by the 1819 Inclosure of Hillingdon Parish

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

Uxbridge and South Ruislip is represented by John Randall MP, of the Conservative Party.

The Art Deco style department store, Randall's, is owned by the family of the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, John Randall.

Further upstream is Uxbridge Lock, and nearby is a derelict flour mill formerly owned by Allied Mills.

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.

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

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.

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 large town located in west London, England and is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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.

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 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.

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.