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Uxbridge is a town in west London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. [1]

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A40 road in London

The A40 is a major trunk road connecting London to Fishguard, Wales.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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American President Lines

American President Lines Ltd. (now simply referred to as APL), along with its parent company CMA CGM, is the world's third-largest container transportation and shipping company, providing more than 80 weekly services.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Anixter

Anixter International is a company based in Glenview, Illinois, United States and founded in 1957.

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Archibald Campbell Tait

Archibald Campbell Tait (21 December 18113 December 1882) was an Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.

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Arri

The Arri Group is a global supplier of motion picture film equipment.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Associated British Foods

Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company whose headquarters are in London.

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Aston Martin DB5

The Aston Martin DB5 is a British luxury grand tourer (GT) that was made by Aston Martin and designed by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera.

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B roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads.

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Baptismal font

A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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Battle of Britain Bunker

The Battle of Britain Bunker is an underground operations room at RAF Uxbridge, formerly used by No. 11 Group Fighter Command during the Second World War.

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Bec Abbey

Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Ben Weinreb

Benjamin Weinreb (1912–1999) was a British bookseller and expert on the history of London who in 1968 sold his entire stock to the University of Texas.

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Bernard Miles

Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishopshalt School

Bishopshalt School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status based in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Black British

Black British are British citizens of Black origins or heritage, including those of African-Caribbean (sometimes called "Afro-Caribbean") background, and may include people with mixed ancestry.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), best known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist serving as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015.

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Brentford

Brentford is a town in west London, England, historic county town of Middlesex and part of the London Borough of Hounslow, at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west-by-southwest of Charing Cross.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is an American pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City.

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British Asian

British Asians (also referred as South Asians in the United Kingdom, Asian British people or Asian Britons) are persons of South Asian descent who reside in the United Kingdom.

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British Chinese

British Chinese (also known as Chinese British, Chinese Britons) are people of Chineseparticularly Han Chineseancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second or third largest group of overseas Chinese in Europe apart from the Chinese diaspora in France and the overseas Chinese community in Russia.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Brunel University London

Brunel University London is a public research university located in Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Buckinghamshire New University

Buckinghamshire New University, styled bucks new university, is a public university with campuses in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Uxbridge, Middlesex.

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Cadbury

Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company wholly owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.

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Carousel Buses

Carousel Buses is a bus company based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Catholic emancipation

Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.

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Chapel of ease

A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.

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Chapelry

A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.

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Charing Cross

Charing Cross is a junction in London, England, where six routes meet.

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Charles Brown (engineer)

Charles Brown (1827–1905) was a British engineer.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Christine Keeler

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and topless showgirl.

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Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hibbert (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert) MC (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008), was an English author, historian and biographer.

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Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums, sometimes called mums or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Coca-Cola European Partners

Coca-Cola European Partners plc (CCEP) is a multinational bottling company dedicated to the marketing, production, and distribution of Coca-Cola products.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Courage Brewery

Courage Brewery was an English brewery, founded by John Courage in 1787 in London, England.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.

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Crown and Treaty

The Crown and Treaty is a pub on Oxford Road in Uxbridge, London, England, where Charles I and his Parliamentary opponents during the English Civil War held negotiations (the Treaty of Uxbridge) between 30 January and 22 February 1645.

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Denham, Buckinghamshire

Denham is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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ECB Premier Leagues

The ECB Premier Leagues are a series of regional cricket leagues organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that form the top tier of club cricket in England and Wales.

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Edward Walford

Edward Walford (1823–1897) was a British magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works, perhaps best known for his 6 Volumes of Old and New London (the first two of which were written by Walter Thornbury), 1878.

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Edwardian architecture

Edwardian architecture is an architectural style popular during the reign of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1901 to 1910).

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Elthorne Hundred

Elthorne was a hundred (ancient subdivision) of the historic county of Middlesex, England.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Enclosure

Enclosure (sometimes inclosure) was the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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English Place-Name Society

The English Place-Name Society (EPNS) is a learned society concerned with toponomastics and the toponymy of England, in other words, the study of place-names (toponyms).

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F. Hinds

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First Berkshire & The Thames Valley

First Beeline Buses, trading as First Berkshire & The Thames Valley, is a bus operator providing services in and around Slough.

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Francis Bourne

Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861–1935) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Frays River

Frays River is a semi-canalised short river in England that branches off the River Colne at Uxbridge Moor and rejoins it at West Drayton.

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General Mills

General Mills, Inc., is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores.

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George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), styled Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

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Grand Junction Canal

The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches.

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Grand Union Canal

The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Great Wratting

Great Wratting is a village and civil parish in England, about four miles from Haverhill, Suffolk, in the valley of the River Stour.

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Green Line bus route 724

Green Line route 724 is a bus service currently operated by Arriva Shires & Essex as part of the Green Line Coaches network.

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Harefield

Harefield is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, on a hill, northwest of Charing Cross near Greater London's boundary with Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the north.

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Harrow on the Hill

Harrow on the Hill is an area of north west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Harrow.

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Hawker Hurricane

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

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Hayes and Harlington Urban District

Hayes (from 1930, Hayes and Harlington) was a local government, urban district in west Middlesex, England from 1904 to 1965.

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Hayes, Hillingdon

Hayes is a town in West London, situated west of Charing Cross.

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High Wycombe

High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Hillingdon

Hillingdon is a suburban area within the London Borough of Hillingdon, situated 14.2 miles (22.8 km) west of Charing Cross.

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Hillingdon Civic Centre

Hillingdon Civic Centre is the headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon, located in Uxbridge.

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Hillingdon House

Hillingdon House is a Grade II listed mansion in Hillingdon, Greater London.

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Hillingdon London Borough Council

Hillingdon London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London, England.

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Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex

The Hillingdon Sports and Leisure Complex is a leisure centre in Uxbridge, operated by Fusion Lifestyle on behalf of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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HMS Intrepid (D10)

HMS Intrepid was one of nine s built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.

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Iver

Iver is a large civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

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John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge

Alexander John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge, Kt, PC (born 5 August 1955) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and then later Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

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John Stears

John Stears (25 August 1934 – 28 June 1999) was a British two-time Academy Award-winning special effects expert.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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List of bus routes in London

This is a list of Transport for London (TfL) contracted bus routes in London, England, as well as commercial services that enter the Greater London area (except coaches).

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List of electoral wards in Greater London

This is a list of electoral areas and wards in the ceremonial county and English region of Greater London.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London.

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London Borough of Hillingdon

The London Borough of Hillingdon is a large borough located in Greater London, England which had a population of 273,936 according to the 2011 Census.

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London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL) that manages bus services within Greater London.

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London Buses route 427

London Buses route 427 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Buses route 607

London Buses route 607 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England.

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London Plan

The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Greater London area in the United Kingdom that is written by the Mayor of London and published by the Greater London Authority.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Margiad Evans

Margiad Evans was the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler (17 March 1909 – 17 March 1958), an English poet, novelist and illustrator with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mesolithic

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line (colloquially known as the Met) is a London Underground line that runs between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in the western London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Michael Shersby

Sir Julian Michael Shersby (17 February 1933 – 8 May 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.

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Middlesex County Council

Middlesex County Council was the principal local government body in the administrative county of Middlesex from 1889 to 1965.

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Middlesex County Cricket League

The Middlesex County Cricket League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Middlesex, England.

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Municipal borough

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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Municipal Borough of Uxbridge

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

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Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of the English capital city from prehistoric to modern times.

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NetApp

NetApp, Inc. is a hybrid cloud data services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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Nexen

Nexen is a Canadian oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta.

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No. 11 Group RAF

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No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron

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No. 33 Squadron RAF

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Non-League football

Non-League football describes football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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Odeon Cinemas

Odeon is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway, which along with UCI Cinemas and Nordic Cinema Group is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group subsidiary of AMC Theatres.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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PAREXEL

PAREXEL International is a global provider of biopharmaceutical services.

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Piccadilly line

The Piccadilly line is a London Underground line that runs between in suburban north London and in the west, where it divides into two branches: one of these runs to Heathrow Airport and the other to in northwest London, with some services terminating at.

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PizzaExpress

PizzaExpress is a restaurant group with over 470 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, China, India and the Middle East.

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Plant nursery

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Profumo affair

The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.

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Prudential plc

Prudential plc is a British multinational life insurance and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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RAF Fighter Command

RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force.

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RAF Northolt

RAF Northolt is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, from Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London.

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RAF Uxbridge

RAF Uxbridge was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Uxbridge, within the London Borough of Hillingdon, occupying a site that originally belonged to the Hillingdon House estate.

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Randalls of Uxbridge

Randalls of Uxbridge was a family-owned British department store in Vine Street, Uxbridge, which operated for 123 years until it closed in January 2015.

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Red Lion, Hillingdon

The Red Lion is a Grade II listed public house at Royal Lane, Hillingdon, London.

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River Colne, Hertfordshire

The Colne is a river in England which is a tributary of the River Thames.

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River Pinn

The River Pinn is a river in the county of Middlesex, in the western part of Greater London, which originates in Harrow Weald and flows into the Frays River, a distributary of the River Colne.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bombay (or Mumbai) is a Latin particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in western India's state of Maharashtra.

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Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture.

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Roundhead

Roundheads were supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Ruislip-Northwood Urban District

Ruislip-Northwood was an urban district in west Middlesex, England, from 1904 to 1965.

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Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.

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Saxons

The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.

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Southall

Southall is a large suburban district of west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Ealing.

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St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style.

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Staines-upon-Thames

Staines-upon-Thames is a town on the River Thames in Surrey, England.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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The Chimes, Uxbridge

The Chimes, Uxbridge is a shopping centre in Uxbridge, within the London Borough of Hillingdon, owned in a joint venture between the Malaysian pension fund Kumpulan Wang Persaraan and Intu Properties.

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The London Encyclopaedia

The London Encyclopaedia, first published in 1983, is a 1100-page historical reference work, on the United Kingdom's capital city, London.

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The Pavilions

The Pavilions is an indoor shopping mall located in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, northwest London, England.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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United Kingdom general election, 1997

The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2010

The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons.

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Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Uxbridge was a borough constituency represented by one Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, 1885—2010.

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Uxbridge (Vine Street) branch line

The Uxbridge (Vine Street) branch line was a railway line to Uxbridge in the historical English county of Middlesex, from the Great Western Railway main line at West Drayton.

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Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency)

Uxbridge and South Ruislip is a constituency created in 2010, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Boris Johnson, a Conservative.

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Uxbridge College

Uxbridge College (formerly Uxbridge Technical College) is a general further education college in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Uxbridge Cricket Club

Uxbridge Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

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Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground

Uxbridge Cricket Ground opened in 1971.

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Uxbridge F.C.

The Uxbridge Football Club are a football club representing Uxbridge, currently based in West Drayton, in the London Borough of Hillingdon England.

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Uxbridge High Street railway station

Uxbridge High Street railway station in Uxbridge, England, was on what is now Oxford Road near its junction with Sanderson Road.

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Uxbridge tube station

Uxbridge is a London Underground station in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, north-west London.

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Uxbridge Vine Street railway station

Uxbridge Vine Street station opened on 8 September 1856 as Uxbridge Station and was the earliest of three railway stations in Uxbridge, London, in the UK.

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Uxenden Hall

Uxenden Hall or Uxendon Hall was an English manor house near Harrow-on-the-Hill.

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V-1 flying bomb

The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.

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War economy

A war economy is the set of contingencies undertaken by a modern state to mobilize its economy for war production.

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Watford

Watford is a town and borough in North West London, England, situated northwest of central London and inside the circumference of the M25 motorway.

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West Drayton

West Drayton is a suburban town in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England with a station on the Great Western main line from London Paddington.

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West London Tram

The West London Tram (also known as West London Transit) was a proposed on-street light rail line that was to run along the Uxbridge Road (A4020) corridor in West London, England.

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White British

White British is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.

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William St Julien Arabin

William St Julien Arabin (177315 December 1841) was a British lawyer and judge who served as the Judge-Advocate-General of the Army for a three-and-a-half-month period (6 November 183821 February 1839).

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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WMS Gaming

WMS Gaming is a manufacturer of slot machines, video lottery terminals and software to help casinos manage their gaming operations.

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Xerox

Xerox Corporation (also known as Xerox, stylized as xerox since 2008, and previously as XEROX or XeroX from 1960 to 2008) is an American global corporation that sells print and digital document solutions, and document technology products in more than 160 countries.

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Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District

Yiewsley and West Drayton also known as Yiewsley and West Drayton U.D. was an urban district in Middlesex, England (1911-1965).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbridge

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