Municipal Borough of Uxbridge

The Municipal Borough of Uxbridge was a district in the metropolitan area of the British capital London. It existed from 1894 to 1965 under various names and lay in the northwest of the former county of Middlesex.

History

Uxbridge was originally a parsonage ( chapelry ) of the parish of Hillingdon in 1866 and received the status of a civil parish. Already in 1849, a local health council (local board of health ) had been created with expertise in the area of infrastructure. 1894 reconstituted the health district as Urban District, which included, in addition Uxbridge Hillingdon West also. Upon dissolution of the Uxbridge Rural District in 1929, the villages of Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon and Ickenham East were added. In 1955 the Uxbridge Urban District the status of a municipal borough.

With the establishment of the administrative region of Greater London in 1965 was created from the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge and the Urban Districts Hayes and Harlington, Ruislip - Northwood and Yiewsley and West Drayton London Borough of Hillingdon.

Statistics

Until 1929 the area was 868 acres (3.51 km ²), then 4143 acres ( 16.77 km ²). The census revealed the following population figures:

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