Qualla: Uxbridge https://qualla.com/uxbridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Uxbridge https://qualla.com/uxbridge Uxbridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0. In a quiet pub off the High Street, in January 1645, Charles I's negotiators sat across from Parliament's men and tried to end a civil war. They failed. The wood-panelled room where they argued still exists, though one of its walls spent nearly thirty years inside the Empire State Building before being shipped home as a coronation gift to Elizabeth II. Uxbridge keeps its history in odd places like that. A pub. A bunker beneath a former RAF station. A street name borrowed from a Saxon tribe out of Lincolnshire.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/gcpt-uxbridge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uxbridge: Wixan's Bridge https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name is older than London thinks of itself. In the seventh century, a Saxon people called the Wixan migrated south from Lincolnshire and settled around a crossing of the River Colne, where the Oxford Road now meets a modern bridge beside the Swan and Bottle pub. By 1107 the p...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/gcpt-uxbridge-wixans-bridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Uxbridge: The Crown and Treaty https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit tpholland, CC BY 2.0. By 1645, Uxbridge had become the country's most important market town outside the city proper, the first stop for stagecoaches running between London and Oxford. That convenience made it the obvious neutral ground when King Charles I and the Parliamentary Army agreed to attempt p...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/gcpt-uxbridge-the-crown-and-treaty.mp3 0:06 3 full Uxbridge: The Bunker Beneath https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit Harrison49, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a wooded plot a mile from the high street, sixty feet underground, sits the room from which the air defence of southern England was directed during the summer of 1940. The Battle of Britain Bunker housed No. 11 Group's Operations Room: a long table marked with the counties of ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/gcpt-uxbridge-the-bunker-beneath.mp3 0:06 4 full Uxbridge: Flour, Flowers, and the V-1s https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit Robert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK, CC BY 2.0. For roughly two hundred years, most of London's bread began here. The Grand Junction Canal, opened in 1794, linked Uxbridge's mills with Birmingham and the Thames at Brentford. One of those riverside mills was bought in the nineteenth century by William King and named Kingsmill —...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/t/uxbridge-wp/gcpt-uxbridge-flour-flowers-and-the-v-1s.mp3 0:06 5 full Uxbridge: Town Today https://qualla.com/uxbridge/ Photo credit Conrad Roth, CC BY 2.0. Modern Uxbridge is a commercial centre, the western terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines, home to Brunel University and the European offices of Coca-Cola, Cadbury and a dozen other names. The Chimes shopping centre opened in 2001 over ground where the Bronze Age rema...

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