Friends of Southlands Presents the 2023 Literary & Storytelling Festival: Celebrating Creativity and Imagination Southlands Arts Centre & Friends of Southlands is thrilled to announce the eagerly anticipated 2023 Literary & Storytelling Festival, a...
The Summer Art Exhibition at Southlands Arts is drawing to a close. As we enter the final week, visitors are in for a treat with an array of incredible artwork that showcases the depth and diversity of local talent. Each piece tells a unique story, and I've personally...
If you're reading this on MyUxbridge, you are probably squarely in the middle of the ULEZ expansions zone that will now cover Hillingdon. Here's the thing - I hear someone complaining about it with entirely incorrect information every day. In the last month alone, I...
We are working on a lot behind the scenes, much of which we want to keep under wraps for now. But besides expanding the directory, and adding things to do in Uxbridge we are looking into a range of awards of the area, and a closer look at the community, and history of...
Halloween is coming to Uxbridge early this year, with some spooky fun in the Uxbridge town centre. The undead is taking over Uxbridge, but luckily they are pretty friendly and bring some fun and games. Thursday 27th - 11 am - 4 pm Friday 28th - 11am - 4 pm Saturday...
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*Updated Dec 2016 Click Here* How many do we need?As of July, Uxbridge town centre now has no less than four costa coffee shops, All within walking distance of each other and there has come a point we have to ask, how many do we actually need? Once Starbucks was the...
No, you aren't seeing things - that is the Batmobile parked in The Chimes in Uxbridge. The Tumbler from the Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is in Uxbridge on Saturday 5th March. I have to admit, the Tumbler is one of my all-time favourite Batmobiles and I am...
If you have been following the progress in Stockley Park and were slightly devastated when The White House, Wetherspoons closed down, you may be interested to find out; it has finally been confirmed that we will be getting a Travelodge in Stockley Park Arena. The...
The high-street has been having a tough couple of years lately. It never truly recovered from the first recession, and with the growth of online shopping, and brick and motar stores slow to keep up with these online trends, it was inevitable that we would see more...
In a dramatic turn of events, HMV Uxbridge has re-opened its doors as of today, Friday 8th March, almost a month after it was originally closed as part of the HMV sale. There was a list of stores that would be closed in an effort to restructure and make HMV...
An Afternoon with Michelle Harrison at Waterstones The bestselling author of the Thirteen Treasures series, Michelle Harrison, will be talking about her wonderful new novel, A Pinch of Magic at Waterstones in Uxbridge on Saturday 23rd February at 2 pm. So if you...
It is with great sadness that we announce the closure of HMV Uxbridge. This is hot on the heels of Disney store closing, and another victim of this 'non-recession'. A Brief History of HMV HMV started in 1921, and the HMV name was also used for television and...
Slug and Lettuce have been a staple of Uxbridge for many years, and love it or hate it, the Uxbridge nightlife will have drastically changed with the Slug & Lettuce closure. But with the closure of Slug and Lettuce, comes a new and untested brand called Millers...
We broke the sad news that The Disney Store was closing its Uxbridge location only a few weeks ago, and now we know why! Lidl Coming to Intu Uxbridge! Yes, Lidl is moving into the Disney Store location and taking the adjacent location that used to be the upper level...
*Update 2022* During the pandemic, Disney quietly closed most of the Disney Store Locations in the UK. The nearest to Uxbridge was once Westfield but that, too, is now closed. The only store in the UK is now the London flagship store on Oxford Street. Original...
After the surprise closure of The White House Wetherspoons, and the sudden selling of The Crown and Treaty, everyone in Uxbridge has been feeling a sense of impending doom about the next well-established, Uxbridge stalwart that will be closed. In an announcement last...
Several historical 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. Uxbridge also houses the Battle of Britain Bunker, from where the air defence of the south-east of England was coordinated during the Battle of Britain. Situated in RAF Uxbridge, the No. 11 Group Operations Room within the bunker played a crucial rule during the battle and was later used during the D-Day landings.
The wards of Uxbridge North and Uxbridge South are used for the election of councillors to Hillingdon Council and for statistical purposes. The 2011 Census recorded population figures of 12,048 for Uxbridge North and 13,979 for Uxbridge South.