Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Uxbridge. You may be able to find further references to Uxbridge in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
UXBRIDGE	a town, a township, two chapelries, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Uxbridge.

Place	Type of entry	Source
HAYES, or HEESE	a village, a parish, and a sub-district	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Uxbridge within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire	3
William Camden	Middlesex and London	2
William Cobbett	June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire	2
Charles Wesley	Sept. 2 - Dec. 31, 1746: The Midlands and the North-East	1
Celia Fiennes	Another tour of the Midlands	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Uxbridge Moor	0	2
Hillingdon	0	2
Cowley	0	2
Iver Heath	0	2
Ickenham	0	2
Iver	2	2
Yiewsley	0	5
Denham	0	2
Elthorne	0	2
West Drayton	1	3
Moor Hall	0	2
Ruislip	0	3
Dawley	0	2
Langley Marish	0	3
Hayes	2	2
Wexham	0	2
Fulmer	0	2
Yeading	0	1
Harefield	2	2
Harmondsworth	0	2