The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

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London Buses routes 222, 331, 427, 607, A10, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U7, U9, U10 and N207 serve the area, [92] alongside 8 non- Transport for London (TfL) routes: First Berkshire & The Thames Valley route 3, [93] Green Line route 724 and Carousel Buses routes 101, 102, 104, 105, 581 & 583. [94] [95]

There were two Great Western Railway branch lines to Uxbridge with terminus stations at Uxbridge Vine Street (originally just Uxbridge Station) and Uxbridge High Street. The two railway lines were planned to be joined, with a new Uxbridge station to be built on the west side of the town replacing the existing station at Vine Street which had been opened in 1856. [86] Work on the new branch line from the north at Denham started in 1900. However with the Metropolitan Railway being extended into Uxbridge Belmont Road station in 1904 it was decided to temporarily terminate the line at a bridge over Uxbridge High Street. The extension through Uxbridge to join the lines was never completed. [87] Uxbridge High Street station opened on 1 May 1907 but had low passenger numbers and closed on 1 September 1939 as a war economy and never reopened. By the 1960s the Uxbridge Vine Street branch line to West Drayton station was being affected by competition on London services from the town's faster Underground lines. Passenger services were stopped on 10 September 1962. Goods traffic ceased two years later. [88] Uxbridge Vine Street station was demolished in 1969.

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] Europe: United Kingdom". PAREXEL International. 2012. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012 . Retrieved 20 November 2012. Hayes, Alan (11 December 2014). "End of an era as Randall's of Uxbridge closes". Uxbridge Gazette . Retrieved 7 September 2015. Wood panelling from a room in the Crown & Treaty public house was sold in 1924 to an American businessman, who installed it in his office in the Empire State Building in New York. It was returned in 1953 as a gift to the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II and returned to the house, although the monarch retained ownership. [24]

By the 1850s the population of both Hillingdon and Uxbridge was beginning to rise. With new housing being built between the two centres the then Vicar of Hillingdon, Rev. Richard Croft (served 1856–69) gained permission to build a new local church for a newer part of the town traditionally called Hillingdon West. He asked architect Sir George Gilbert Scott "to draw up plans to build a church without unnecessary ornament but in handsome proportions suitable to its position at the entrance to Uxbridge Town..." [ citation needed] Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary, making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. a b c d "Religion". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. 2011. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020 . Retrieved 4 May 2013. John Stears (1934–1999), Academy Award-winning creator of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 and Star Wars robots, born in Uxbridge. [109]

Bernard Miles (1907–1991), actor, writer and director, attended Bishopshalt Grammar School and given a peerage. [106] St Andrew's C of E Primary School". St Andrew's C of E Primary School. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . Another brilliant riff on the idea of the dictionary as law is Milorad Pavic’s slow-burning but compelling comedy Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). It is structured as three short, often contradictory encyclopedias, whose vying accounts of events the reader is made to compare. When it comes to trusting authority, the novel implies, you must keep your wits about you. It’s a send-up of totalitarian censorship: by presenting “factual accounts” from three different perspectives, Khazars’ dictionary explodes claims that any single, uncontested, authoritative version of events is possible. Joan Dowling (1928–1954), actress, best known for her role in the first " Ealing Comedy" Hue and Cry, grew up in Uxbridge. [108]

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. Harlow – Ware – Hertford – Welwyn Garden City – Hatfield – St Albans – Watford – Uxbridge – Heathrow Airport". Green Line. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012 . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . Peggy Eileen Whistler (1909–1958), poet, novelist and illustrator who used the pseudonym Margiad Evans, born in Uxbridge, [107]

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A comprehensive list of definitions of some of the words in the English language, some of which are particularly UK centric, but then these are definitions from the British radio programme "I am Sorry I Haven't a Clue". The Uxbridge English Dictionary is just one of the rounds which may feature in an episode of ISIHAC, but I defy "one song to the tune of another' to be published in book form. Staff Reporter (1 July 2003). "Christine Keeler: Born in Uxbridge 2 February 1942". Leigh Journal . Retrieved 11 September 2012. . In the 2011 census, 72.8% of residents in the Uxbridge North ward answered that they had a religion, compared with 19.3% who did not and 7.9% who did not answer. Of those who answered, 53% identified as Christian, followed by 6.7% who identified as Muslim and 6.2% as Sikh. The percentage identifying as Hindu was 5.4%. Figures for residents identifying as either Jewish, Buddhist or other unspecified religions were each below 1%. [58] United Kingdom". Anixter International. 2012. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013 . Retrieved 20 November 2012.