Uxbridge is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London, England. It is a suburban development situated 15 miles (24.1 km) west north-west of Charing Cross and near to the boundary with Buckinghamshire which is locally the River Colne. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan.
The name is derived from "Wuxen Bridge" which was likely to have been near the bottom of Oxford Road where the "Swan and Bott...
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Uxbridge is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London, England. It is a suburban development situated 15 miles (24.1 km) west north-west of Charing Cross and near to the boundary with Buckinghamshire which is locally the River Colne. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan.
The name is derived from "Wuxen Bridge" which was likely to have been near the bottom of Oxford Road where the "Swan and Bottle" now stands. The Wuxen were a 7th-century Saxon tribe. Before 1965, Uxbridge formed a municipal borough of Middlesex.
The town centre today comprises retail outlets and major office buildings, including the main European offices of several international companies including Kuehne + Nagel, Parexel International, Xerox, Arri, Bristol-Myers Squibb, APL, Herbalife Europe Ltd and the Anadarko Algeria Oil Company. Other employers include Apple, Unisys, F. Hinds, The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Amgen, Bayer, Canon, Anixter...
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