Description
Cowley or Cowley-Peachy, a village and a parish in Middlesex, on the Roman road from Staines to St Albaus, the river Colne, and the Grand Junction Canal, at the boundary with Bucks, 1 1/2 mile S of Uxbridge station on the G.W.R., and 1 1/2 N of West Drayton, with a post and telegraph office, of the name of Cowley, under Uxbridge; money order office, Greenway, Uxbridge. Acreage, 272 ; population, 322. Cowley Grove and Cowley House are chief residences. Fruit is grown here, brick-making is carried on, and there are cement and cocoa-fibre works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; gross yearly value, £140. The church is a building of flint, chiefly in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
