Nestling between the River Colne and the Grand Union Canal, the land which comprises the Uxbridge Industrial Estate has always played a community role. 150 years ago it was in agricultural use, but the town of Uxbridge was growing rapidly and had no sanitation. In the mid nineteenth century civic minded Burghers decided that a sewage farm was needed and the agricultural land was ideally placed, on the outskirts of the town, to provide such a function until the mid 1930s when a larger sewage treatment facility at Mogden was opened, paving the way for the Uxbridge works to be closed.

In 1948 the first business moved onto the recently formed and local authority owned Uxbridge Industrial Estate. For the first two years Industrial Plating and Research Co. Ltd (now known as LHT Anodisers) obtained their electric power via overhead cables swung across the fields from the factory which was, until recently, Ideal Printers. Where Trimite now has its sprawling complex was, in the late 1940s, a dairy farm.

Over the next 10 – 15 years plots were sold off on ground leases to a variety of businesses, mainly local, as the council wished to encourage industries away from their traditional sites that were intermingling with residential areas. Even today the industrial area is bounded by a large residential area.