Municipal Borough of Uxbridge

Uxbridge
Uxbridge within Middlesex in 1961
Geography
Status	Local board of health (1849 - 1894) Urban district (1894 - 1955) municipal borough (from 1955)
1894 area	868 acres (3.5 km2)
1965 area	4,143 acres (16.8 km2)
History
Created	1849
Abolished	1965
Succeeded by	London Borough of Hillingdon
Demography
1901 population	8,585
1961 population	63,941

Uxbridge was a local government district in north west Middlesex, England, from 1849 to 1965, based around the town of Uxbridge.

Uxbridge was one of the first towns in England to adopt the Public Health Act 1848 in 1849 and form a local board of health. Under the Local Government Act 1894 the local board's district was replaced by an urban district. In 1955 the urban district council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation and became a municipal borough.^[1][2]

The district initially consisted of the parishes of Uxbridge and Hillingdon West. In 1929 it was enlarged by gaining from Uxbridge Rural District the parishes of Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East and Ickenham. The parishes were abolished in 1938 in order to create an enlarged Uxbridge parish covering the same area as the district. In 1955 it was incorporated as a borough.

In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London and used to form part of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

References

1. ^ Hillingdon, including Uxbridge: Local Government, Victoria County History of Middlesex: Volume 4, (British History Online), accessed January 31, 2008
2. ^ Vision of Britain - Uxbridge unit history

Coordinates: 51°34′N 0°28′W / 51.56°N 0.47°W / 51.56; -0.47