HILLINGDON, a parish in the hundred of ELTHORNE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 13 miles (W. by N.)
from London, comprising part of the market-town of
Uxbridge, and containing 5636 inhabitants. The living
is a dischaged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex,
and dioeese of London, rated in the king's
books at £16, and in the patronage of the Bishop of
London. The church, dedicated to St. John the
Baptist, is principally in the later style of English
architecture, with an embattled tower at the west end,
and contains among others, a fine monument to the
memory of Henry Earl of Uxbridge, who died in 1743;
in the church-yard is the tomb of John Rich, comedian,
who died in 1761.