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RAF Uxbridge was a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Uxbridge, within the London Borough of Hillingdon, occupying a 44.6-hectare (110-acre) site that originally belonged to the Hillingdon House estate. The British Government purchased the estate in 1915, three years before the founding of the RAF.
The UB postcode area, also known as the Southall postcode area, [2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in England, within six post towns.These cover parts of western and north-western Greater London, plus a very small part of Buckinghamshire.
Uxbridge had a Royal Air Force station, known as RAF Uxbridge, until its closure on 31 March 2010. The station was built within the grounds of Hillingdon House , a 19th-century mansion bought by the British government in 1915, [ 97 ] and became the home of RAF Fighter Command 's No. 11 Group Operations Room during the Battle of Britain .
Royal Air Force Northolt or more simply RAF Northolt (IATA: NHT, ICAO: EGWU) is a Royal Air Force station in South Ruislip, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) [3] from Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon, western Greater London, England, approximately 6 mi (10 km) north of Heathrow Airport.
RAF West Ruislip was a Ministry of Defence site, located in Ickenham within the London Borough of Hillingdon.The base was originally built as a depot for the Royal Air Force (RAF), split by what is now the Chiltern Main Line.
Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distribution Services . It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels).
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.Fighter aircraft operations were controlled from there throughout the War but most notably during the Battle of Britain and on D-Day.
The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, [1] is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.