Editing Uxbridge (section)

==Governance==
Uxbridge is known from tithe assignments to the vicar of Hillingdon in 1281 and hundreds of later documents as a [[chapelry]] in the large parish of [[Hillingdon]];<ref name=hillincuxb>Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld and D C Yaxley, 'Hillingdon, including Uxbridge: Churches', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, ed. T F T Baker, J S Cockburn and R B Pugh (London, 1971), pp. 87-91. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp87-9{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the town core was upgraded to a full parish (and thus its large chapel to a church) in 1827.<ref name=hillincuxb/> Eleven years later a parish of Saint John was added in Uxbridge Moor, Hillingdon.<ref name=hillincuxb/> A parish of Saint Andrew, Uxbridge, was added in 1865.<ref name=hillincuxb/> From Tudor times, parishes had a select or elect [[vestry]] which determined much local maintenance, including poor relief, but under the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834]], broader local poor law unions took on the relief role and shifted funds towards workhouses and associated hospitals.

Uxbridge was in the first main wave of the new, secular system of [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]]es, gaining a council and territory in 1866,<ref>Cotton 1994, p. 44.</ref> and an [[Municipal Borough of Uxbridge|Urban District]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.uxbridgeparish.org/ |title=The Uxbridge Parish |publisher=The Uxbridge Parish |access-date=23 April 2011}}.</ref> In 1955 the council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation and became a [[municipal borough]]. This stood for ten years, followed by incorporation into the new system of London Boroughs, as the [[London Borough of Hillingdon]].<ref>Cotton 1994, p. 131.</ref>

Uxbridge gave its name to a [[Uxbridge (UK Parliament constituency)|parliamentary constituency]] from 1885 until 2010, when boundary changes led to the creation of the [[Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency)|Uxbridge and South Ruislip]] constituency. The seat is currently held by [[Danny Beales]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].