The name of the town is derived from "Wixan's Bridge",[7] which was sited near the bottom of Oxford Road where a modern road bridge now stands, beside the Swan and Bottle public house.[8] The Wixan were a 7th-century Saxon tribe from Lincolnshire who also began to settle in what became Middlesex.[9] Anglo-Saxons began to settle and farm in the area of Uxbridge in the 5th century, clearing dense woodland.