Editing Uxbridge (section)

=== Toponymy ===
The name of the town is derived from "Wixan's Bridge",<ref>{{cite web |url = http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Uxbridge |title = Uxbridge |work = Key to English Place Names |publisher=[[English Place Name Society]] |access-date=10 May 2012 }}</ref> which was sited near the bottom of Oxford Road where a modern road bridge stands, beside the ''Swan and Bottle'' public house.<ref>Pearce 2011, p. 7.</ref> The Wixan were a 7th-century [[Saxon people|Saxon]] tribe from [[Lincolnshire]] who also began to settle in what became [[Middlesex]].<ref name="Cotton p.8">Cotton 1994, p. 8.</ref> [[Anglo-Saxons]] began to settle and farm in the area of Uxbridge in the 5th century, clearing dense woodland.<ref name="Cotton p.8" /> Two other places in Middlesex bore the name of the Wixan: ''[[Uxenden Hall|Uxendon]]'' ("Wixan's Hill"), a name preserved only in the street names of Uxendon Hill and Crescent in Harrow, and ''Waxlow'' ("Wixan's Wood") near [[Southall]].<ref>{{cite book |first= P. H. |last = Reaney |year=1969 |title = The Origin of English Place Names |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul |page=103 |isbn = 0-7100-2010-4 }}.</ref>

Archaeologists found [[Bronze Age]] remains (before 700 BC) and medieval remains during the construction of ''[[The Chimes, Uxbridge|The Chimes]]'' shopping centre; two miles (3.2&nbsp;km) away at [[Denham, Buckinghamshire|Denham]], Upper [[Paleolithic]] remains have been found. Uxbridge is not mentioned in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of the 11th century, but a hundred years later [https://www.stmargaretsuxbridge.org St Margaret's Church], was built. The town appears in records from 1107 as "Woxbrigge", and became part of the [[Elthorne (hundred)|Elthorne Hundred]] with other settlements in the area.<ref>Sherwood 2007, p. 5.</ref>