The population of the town of Uxbridge, London, is around 18500, according to statistical information I could find with a slight adjustment to take in recent population growth.  Overall we quite liked Uxbridge, and as you see in many cities around the World there were higher income housing areas, and lower ones.  We visited the town centre, or as the English seem to refer to it “The high street”  four times.  Twice walking

there and back, the other two times busing in and taking an Uber back to the Red Lion.  It’s a fairly pleasant walk from the hotel to the town centre, albeit alongside a busy road.  One sight along the way, or in fact not too far from the high street shopping area is a huge new development of apartments.  

In fact, it is almost a new town in itself as it also includes a new school.  Once all the stages are finished it will add an extra 267 apartments to the town. 

As well as roadside shops there are two shopping malls in the Uxbridge high street area, The Chimes, and the Pavilions.  The Chimes is more upmarket and has some of the big name brands in it like HMV and Boots, whereas the Pavillions, though still having a handful of big brand shops, is more aimed at the budget end of the shopping scale. What really surprised us in the Pavillions Mall were the number of supermarkets in it.  In New Zealand only a handful of the bigger shopping malls actually have a  supermarket, so to see no less than five within the one medium size shopping mall was quite a novelty.