As of 2012, Uxbridge had 112,175 square metres (1,207,440sqft) of town centre floorspace. [65] Uxbridge has two shopping centres, The Pavilions and The Chimes (formerly Intu Uxbridge). Much of the town centre is pedestrianised. Just off the High Street is Windsor Street, a short street with older shops. Hayes, Alan (11 December 2014). "End of an era as Randall's of Uxbridge closes". Uxbridge Gazette . Retrieved 7 September 2015.

A few major events have taken place in and around the town, including attempted negotiations between King Charles I and the Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War. The public house at the centre of those events, since renamed the Crown & Treaty, still stands. RAF Uxbridge houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east of England was coordinated during the Battle of Britain especially from its No. 11 Group Operations Room, also used during the D-Day landings. The Redeemed Christian Church of God is based at 2 Harefield Road, worship is in the Kate Fasnidge Hall, it is contemporary and Pentecostal. [64] Economy [ edit ] The former Randalls store is terraced, has a tower, and is in Art Deco style. Looking down Vine Street from High Street Uxbridge was in the first main wave of the new, secular system of civil parishes, gaining a council and territory in 1866, [49] and an Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894. [50] In 1955 the council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation and became a municipal borough. This stood for ten years, followed by incorporation into the new system of London Boroughs, as the London Borough of Hillingdon. [51] Within the London Borough, 55.1% of residents travel to the Uxbridge North and Uxbridge South wards to work, and only 8% of residents working there who also live within the wards. [56] The 2001 census measured a total of 6,007 (35.9%) of residents leaving the North ward to go to work. Uxbridge South had a figure of 5,666 (26.5%) of residents leaving the ward to work elsewhere. [57]

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For most of its history, St Margaret's served as a chapel-of-ease to St John the Baptist's Church in Hillingdon; it was not until 1827 that it was given its own parish. [60] St Andrew's Church [ edit ] St Andrew's Church

Uxbridge tube station is the western terminus of branches of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines of the London Underground. The station, built in 1933, is fronted by a pedestrian high street and is connected to a bus terminus with connections to Hillingdon, Hayes, Ealing, Ruislip, and Slough. Uxbridge Belmont Road was the first underground station, built slightly outside the town centre to allow for a possible extension to High Wycombe. This was subsequently replaced by the current station. [85] These are the concerns of Ivan Vladislavic’s virtuosic 2011 novella A Labour of Moles, which takes place within a dictionary. Here, words exist as locations, characters and objets trouvés to be encountered and overpowered. The narrator must negotiate definitions and lemmas as if they were a foreboding and perilous landscape. Margaret W. Robins (1939). Mother Cecile of Grahamstown, South Africa: A Record of a Great Educational Work. Gardner, Darton.