 cowley  is a village contiguous with the town of uxbridge in the london borough of hillingdon. a largely suburban village with 16&nbsp;listed buildings, cowley is 15.4 miles (24.8&nbsp;km) west of charing cross, bordered to the west by uxbridge moor in the green belt and the river colne, forming the border with buckinghamshire. cowley lies on a ridge  above mean sea level. ==history== ===medieval period=== st. laurence church was in recorded as in the parish of cowley in the 1086 domesday book along with the parish land owned by westminster abbey, valued as worth to its lord two pounds per year in 1066 and at one pound ten shillings in 1086. its independent male householders were two villagers, one cottage-owner with one cultivated ploughland for one lord's plough team. lord's lands (also referred to as a manorial park) took up 1.5 ploughs of land, and meadow land half a plough. the woodland was worth forty pigs (per year) and a mill was worth for five shillings per year.entries from the domesday book from the domesday map website a lay franchise (jurisdiction) of the church was held in 1293 by lucy peachey, whose name is reflected in several of the roads and by the local government ward of cowley peachey. cowley was surrounded by hillingdon parish, of which the town of uxbridge itself and uxbridge moo
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