Uxbridge Common
Introduction
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Uxbridge Common
Image: © Marathon Taken: 7 Feb 2018
Uxbridge Common is typical of the traditional village common in its layout and includes a pond, a network of ditches and tree planting around the edges, as seen here alongside Park Road. The pond in the north-west corner is home to Great-Crested Newts - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5673638 This is near the entrance at the south-east corner. The Common is a fragment of remnant heath, meaning a small area of heathland remaining after the main part, which historically would have covered the surrounding area, no longer exists. There is a larger area on current Ordnance Maps marked as Uxbridge Common to the east, bounded by Park Road, the Metropolitan line and the A40. This can also be seen on Ordnance Maps from the turn of the 20th century, although at that time neither the railway nor the A40 existed here - see http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=51.5533&lon=-0.4743&layers=B000000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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Image Location
Latitude
51.553202
Longitude
-0.471222