Uxbridge, Harrow and Ruislip Pub Explorations

A post from the north-west corner of London, taking in canal-side pubs, Fullers 'London Pride', a prestigious private school, and more Wetherspoon's that anyone really need to be subjected to.I've sat on the Oxford Tube countless times as it pulls off the A40 at Hillingdon to pick up and set down a handful of passengers.Why do they get off there? I figured I'd hop off and see what I could see.Discovery one: Hillingdon covers a big area and its current GBG listed pub is a heck of a long way from Hillingdon station and the Oxford Tube bus stop. I stopped half way down Long Lane (clue in the name there) to check I was actually going the right way. Thirty minutes after alighting the bus, I finally found myself at pub number one.Where I vowed to get the blog post written quickly enough to give you chance to pop the date in the diary for the Simply Red tribute band...The Red Lion is located in Hillingdon Village which would be quite nice were it not for the 4-lanes of Uxbridge Road running…