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The Great Western was situated at 187 High Street. This pub stood at the entrance to George Street and was known as The Rose & Crown until the late 1860s. It was closed and demolished in March 1940. The site remained vacant until a Sainsbury's store was built in 1975.

The very old public house known as the Rose & Crown kept by that old and very respected host Mr James Janes. A curious point in this house is the fact that a small portion of the right-hand corner is built over the Borough Ditch which separates Uxbridge Township from the parish of Hillingdon, so that in beating the bounds (a custom discontinued in this district) a person would have to pass in at the right-hand front door and through the first window in Janes’ Alley, which runs at the back of a row of cottages to Cross Path at the top on the left, and to Montague Road on the right.

Peregrinations of a Kiddy, 1873

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