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Roxbourne

Roxbourne
Roxbourne west boundary.PNG
Roxbourne Park West boundary line.
Roxbourne is located in Greater London
Roxbourne
Roxbourne
Roxbourne shown within Greater London
Population 12,828 (2011 Census. Ward)
OS grid reference TQ128873
London borough
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HARROW
Postcode district HA2
Post town PINNER
Postcode district HA5
Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan
Fire London
Ambulance London
EU Parliament London
UK Parliament
London Assembly
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UK
England
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51°34′30″N 0°22′57″W / 51.574936°N 0.382424°W / 51.574936; -0.382424Coordinates: 51°34′30″N 0°22′57″W / 51.574936°N 0.382424°W / 51.574936; -0.382424

Roxbourne is a hamlet of London Borough of Harrow west of Rayners Lane in the north west of Greater London (Historically in the county of Middlesex). It is home to Yeading Brook and the Roxbourne Park which provides 26 hectares of open space including football and cricket facilities, the Roxbourne Rough Nature Reserve which is enriched with wild life and the Roxbourne (miniature) Railway.

The first census in 1801 simply divided people into those employed in agriculture and those in trade or manufacturing, and the 1841 census, the first to gather detailed occupational data, imposed no real order on it at all. However, the first occupational classification, introduced in 1851, was clearly concerned with social status as well as with what people made: it began with the Queen, followed by government officials and then by 'the learned professions'.


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