63-625: Rayners Lane is a suburban district in the London Borough of Harrow that forms the western part of Harrow in northwest London. Located between Pinner and West Harrow , it takes its name from a road in the area, also called Rayners Lane (formerly also spelt Rayner's Lane ) which runs from Marsh Road in Pinner to Eastcote Lane in South Harrow . The first documented use of Rayner as a place name in Pinner
126-475: A Music Service which provides instrumental tuition for 15% of all Harrow state sector pupils (the national figure is 8% of all state pupils receiving instrumental tuition) and a range of ensemble opportunities for pupils. The independent schools of the Borough are dominated by the presence of Harrow School and John Lyon School for boys and North London Collegiate School for girls which consistently rank as among
189-571: A car or van, 1.6%. Harrow is twinned with: A coat of arms was granted to Harrow Urban District Council in 1938. Supporters to the arms were granted in 1954, when the urban district was incorporated as a municipal borough. The municipal borough became the London Borough of Harrow in 1965, with unaltered boundaries, and thus the council retained use of the arms. The arms are also used by Harrow Borough F.C. The motto reads as "Salus Populi Suprema Lex" which translates from Latin as "The well-being of
252-408: A handful of large tertiary colleges. For a long time the secondary schools of Harrow did not feature integrated sixth form education, with all school leavers having to join the tertiary colleges such as Harrow College and Stanmore College , or the faith-based St Dominic's Sixth Form College . The tertiary system was implemented in 1987 after years of discussions and delays, with Harrow becoming
315-632: A miniature railway open to the public on Sundays and provides access to the Roxbourne Nature Reserve. Newton Farm Ecology Park is a small area of meadows and woodland located between Alexandra Avenue and Rayners Lane that was converted into a nature reserve in 1990. It is situated on what was once a floodplain where the east branch of Yeading Brook and the Roxbourne River converge. The Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines converge at Rayners Lane Station . Both lines run services westbound along
378-751: A public house in 2006 and is now occupied by the Christ the Redeemer religious training college. The shops at 464-472 Alexandra Avenue are locally listed by Harrow Council . They were built in the International style by R.C. White-Cooper and S.R. Turner in 1937. Roxbourne Primary School is the only school in the Rayners Lane ward. Outside the ward, nearby schools include Longfield Primary School; Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School; and Buckingham Preparatory School. A library used to be located on Imperial Drive, but
441-407: A subsequent failure to raise enough funds to build a new one, the club moved to Elstree in 2011. Harrow also had a professional rugby league team when London Broncos played at The Hive Stadium in 2014 and 2015. The club relocated to Ealing from 2016 onwards. The borough is often perceived as having a good educational record, and features many state-funded primary and secondary schools as well as
504-653: A world food zone and outside radio broadcast. Faith in Harrow (2021) Harrow is the most religiously diverse local authority area in the UK, with a 62% chance that two random people are from different religions, according to Office for National Statistics, October 2006. According to the 2011 census, 25.3% of Harrow's population identified themselves as Hindu - the highest in the UK. A large number of Jewish people live in Stanmore and Hatch End . The Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue boasts
567-530: Is a London borough in northwest London , England ; it forms part of Outer London . It borders four other London boroughs – Barnet to the east of ancient Watling Street (now the A5 road) , Brent to the southeast, Ealing to the south and Hillingdon to the west and the Hertfordshire districts of Three Rivers and Hertsmere to the north. The local authority is Harrow London Borough Council . The London borough
630-448: Is a diverse borough, having 63.8% of its population from the BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) communities, with the largest group being of Indian ethnicity (specifically those from Gujarat and South India ). The borough can also claim to have the largest concentration of Sri Lankan Tamils in the UK and Ireland as well as having the highest density of Gujarati Hindus in the UK. Wards with
693-629: Is located in the upper part of the Crane Valley within the catchment area of the River Crane . The east and west branches of Yeading Brook , the dominant source of the Crane, pass through the surrounding area. Built atop a railway bridge, the Underground station marks the highest point in the area. It is a focal point of the Rayners Lane conservation area, which includes the shopping parades north and south of
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#1732858888681756-581: Is the Grade II* listed former Ace Cinema , an Art Deco building designed by F.E. Bromige that opened in 1936. Notably, it features a stylised elephant’s trunk on the entrance canopy. The building was acquired in 2000 by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe and is now known as the Zoroastrian Centre. It is the only temple of its type in the UK. Charles Holden and Reginald Uren designed
819-512: The 2011 census was Indian (28%), followed by White British (27%) and other Asian (21%). It has one of London's largest Tamil communities. According to the 2021 census , 56.1% of the population identified as Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh (including 30.43% as Indian and 20.65% as other Asian), followed by White (25.5%) and Other ethnic group (10.32%). The ward ranked 22nd in the London Borough of Harrow for people identifying as White and first for those identifying as Other ethnic group. In
882-705: The 2017 general election , the Conservative Party manifesto proposed changing how the Assembly is elected to first-past-the-post. However, since the general election of 2017, which resulted in a hung Parliament with the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party in a confidence and supply arrangement , no action has been taken with regard to the electoral arrangements of the London Assembly, and
945-466: The Brent and Harrow constituency. Its site on and near the green belt and ease of access to central London (20 minutes by train to Marylebone and 12 minutes to Euston via West Midlands Trains ) make Harrow a convenient place to live. Rising property prices in all London areas have helped to see a large increase in property redevelopment of its existing Edwardian and 1920s to 1940s housing stock. Harrow
1008-585: The House of Commons : David Lammy , Meg Hillier , Diana Johnson , and Florence Eshalomi for Labour; Andrew Pelling , Bob Neill , Angie Bray , Bob Blackman , Eric Ollerenshaw , Victoria Borwick , James Cleverly , Kit Malthouse , Kemi Badenoch , and Gareth Bacon for the Conservatives; Lynne Featherstone for the Liberal Democrats and Siân Berry for the Green Party. One Assembly member, Jenny Jones ,
1071-593: The London Borough of Sutton 's 35.1% (highest proportion nationally) and Bournemouth 's 34.6%. The first and only contemporary artist-led gallery in Harrow was set up in 2010 by the Usurp Art Collective. The space is called the Usurp Art Gallery & Studios and is based in West Harrow, a bohemian part of Harrow. Usurp Art provides professional support to artists and runs the only public artists studios in
1134-661: The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Ladbrokes , which formally has its headquarters in Harrow. Crime figures are generally lower compared to the Greater London average; the borough had 2,618 notifiable offences in April 2009, compared with an average of 2,204 across London's boroughs. Between the annual year of June 2017 to June 2018, Harrow was ranked 28th out of the 32 London boroughs in terms of number of criminal offences, and recording just one murder in
1197-527: The Yeading Brook . During the medieval period, it functioned as a nameless service road linking Pinner and Roxeth . It was used to transport grain to the mill on Pinner Green . The Metropolitan Railway was extended to Uxbridge from Harrow on the Hill in 1904, passing across Rayners Lane. A halt was built at Rayners Lane, opening in 1906. Despite this, the area remained rural, with a single farmstead north of
1260-431: The additional member system , with a set number of constituencies elected on a first-past-the-post system and a set number London-wide on a closed party list system. Terms are for four years, so despite the delayed 2020 election, which was held in 2021, the following election was held in 2024. In December 2016, an Electoral Reform Bill was introduced which would have changed the election system to first-past-the-post . At
1323-431: The 1970s. Dev Patel is a BAFTA award-winning internationally renowned British actor who grew up in Rayners Lane. Jai Paul is an electronic music recording artist signed to XL Recordings , whose influential songs of the 2010s have been sampled by Drake and Beyoncé . He and his brother A. K. Paul grew up in Rayners Lane. London Borough of Harrow The London Borough of Harrow ( / ˈ h ær oʊ / )
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#17328588886811386-676: The 2020 election, delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , was held on the current electoral system of AMS (constituencies and regional lists). On 12 December 2018, following Peter Whittle 's departure from UKIP, he and David Kurten disbanded the UKIP grouping and formed the Brexit Alliance group. In March 2019, following the departure of Tom Copley and Fiona Twycross to take up full-time Deputy Mayor roles, Murad Qureshi and Alison Moore replaced them as Labour Assembly members. The end of
1449-649: The 2021 census, 39.9% of respondents identified as Hindu –the highest of all wards in the London Borough of Harrow–followed by 28.1% as Christian and 13% as Muslim . No Religion was answered by 8.8% of respondents. The ward also ranked first in Harrow among those identifying as Sikh at 2.44%. In the 2011 census, it was reported that 34 adherents of Zoroastrianism lived in the Rayners Lane ward. Of Rayners Lane’s residents aged 16 or over, 62.56% were reported as economically active. The main occupations were 'Professional occupations' and ‘Managers, directors and senior officials’. The principal point of architectural interest
1512-684: The 2024/25 season. Rayners Lane also has a sports club called Harrow Town Sports Club which has been in existence since the 1890s. It is the home of the Harrow Town Cricket Club who have played in the Middlesex County Cricket League since 2002. Venceremos FC and the HT Tennis Club are also based at the sports club. There are several open spaces in or near Rayners Lane including Rayners Mead, Newton Park and Roxbourne Park. Yeading Brook runs through Roxbourne Park which has
1575-635: The 398 runs between Wood End in Northolt and Ruislip tube station . "Rural Rayners Lane" is mentioned in John Betjeman's poem The Metropolitan Railway ( Baker Street Station Buffet ). It was published in his 1954 anthology A Few Late Chrysanthemums and his Collected Poems in 1958. Former Cunard officer Commodore Harry Grattidge, one of the last captains of the RMS Queen Elizabeth , lived at number 33 High Worple, Rayners Lane until his death in
1638-538: The Labour parliamentary candidate at the 2010 general election, and Navin Shah stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate for Harrow East in 2017. Andrew Dismore , Graham Tope , and the late Richard Tracey are all former MPs later elected to the assembly. John Biggs , formerly AM for City and East , served as the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets from 2015 until 2022. London Assembly elections have been held under
1701-477: The London Borough of Harrow are: Whitefriars High School (co-ed); Bentley Wood High School (girls); Canons High School (co-ed); Harrow High School (co-ed); Hatch End High School (co-ed); Nower Hill High School (co-ed); Park High School (co-ed); Rooks Heath School (co-ed); Whitmore High School (co-ed). Mountview High School in Wealdstone - a comprehensive school formed out of Whitefriars Secondary Modern in
1764-512: The Mayor. The Assembly comprises 25 members elected using the additional-member system of mixed-member proportional representation , with 13 seats needed for a majority. Elections take place every four years, at the same time as those for the mayor of London . There are 14 geographical constituencies, each electing one member, with a further 11 members elected from a party list to make the total number of Assembly members from each party proportional to
1827-463: The activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds supermajority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject the Mayor's draft statutory strategies. The London Assembly was established in 2000. It is also able to investigate other issues of importance to Londoners (most notably transport or environmental matters ), publish its findings and recommendations, and make proposals to
1890-576: The area. H.J. Mark was a prolific architect who designed many buildings on the Alexandra Avenue shopping parade. Charles Holden and Reginald Uren redesigned the station which was completed in 1938 and served the Metropolitan and Piccadilly tube lines. In October 2002, Rayners Lane Conservation Area was designated by Harrow Council . This covers the area around the station and the shopping parades on Alexandra Avenue. The designation aims to protect
1953-460: The area. The Bakerloo and Jubilee lines terminate in the borough, at Harrow and Stanmore respectively. Meanwhile, the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines pass through the southern edge of the borough on shared track before both terminating at Uxbridge . The Northern line terminates just outside Harrow at Edgware tube station in the London Borough of Barnet . The London Overground also serves
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2016-533: The best schools in the country. Notable independent primary schools include Orley Farm School and Reddiford School, both of which are co-educational . There are also a number of voluntary aided schools in the Borough. These include: Salvatorian College (Roman Catholic, boys), Sacred Heart Language College (Roman Catholic, girls) and Moriah Jewish Day School (Jewish, co-ed). There are two special needs high schools; Kingsley High School (co-ed) and Shaftesbury High School (co-ed). Other state secondary schools in
2079-467: The borough was transferred from Middlesex to Greater London under the London Government Act 1963 . It kept the same boundaries, but was renamed the London Borough of Harrow, becoming one of the 32 London Boroughs. It was the only London borough which comprised a single pre-1965 district with no changes to its boundaries. There has since been an adjustment to the borough's northern boundary, where
2142-503: The borough's secondary schools, which led to the first admission of school sixth form students in September 2008. Both Catholic faith-based Salvatorian College and Sacred Heart Language College were unaffected, the students of which could transfer to St Dominic's Sixth Form College. From September 2010, the primary sector was modified to enable transfer to secondary education at age 11 in line with other London Boroughs. The Borough has
2205-642: The borough, sharing track with the Bakerloo line between Queens Park and Harrow & Wealdstone before it continues beyond the latter station to eventually terminate at Watford Junction. The numerous National Rail , London Overground and London Underground stations in the borough are: In March 2011, the main forms of transport that residents used to travel to work were: driving a car or van, 27.5% of all residents aged 16–74; underground, metro, light rail, tram, 5.9%; bus, minibus or coach, 5.9%; train, 4.5%; on foot, 4.3%; work mainly at or from home, 3.5%; passenger in
2268-589: The borough. It is a flagship project for Arts Council England. There are 289 listed buildings located in the London Borough of Harrow, including more than 80 in Harrow-on-the-Hill ward and over 50 in Pinner ward . Grade I and II* buildings in the borough include the Church of St Lawrence, Stanmore and Headstone Manor , and Grade II listed buildings include Bentley Priory , Grim's Dyke and Harrow and Wealdstone station . Major employers included Kodak ,
2331-544: The character of the area and identify opportunities to preserve and improve it. Rayners Lane lies within the London Borough of Harrow , governed under the local authority of Harrow London Borough Council . The Rayners Lane ward was established in The London Borough of Harrow (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978, comprising areas that were previously part of the Pinner South and Roxbourne wards. The first elections in
2394-411: The county of Middlesex . Harrow on the Hill was the largest of the three parishes. Pinner was a chapelry of Harrow on the Hill until 1766 when it was made a separate parish. The central part of the parish of Harrow on the Hill was made a local board district in 1850, with an elected board overseeing public health and responsible for the provision of infrastructure. The local board district covered
2457-522: The early 1970s - closed in 1986 with the site being partially redeveloped into industrial units. The catchment area was dispersed between Nower Hill and Hatch End Schools. Middle schools include Whitchurch Middle School . All of Harrow's pupils have the chance to be elected onto the Harrow Youth Parliament. This is a group of around 50 young people in the Borough who come together to work on projects that benefit other young people. They are also
2520-559: The first London borough with a complete change to tertiary; the Pinner Observer called it an education "revolution". There have been critics of the tertiary colleges, with many arguing the standard of education does not continue the standard set by the Borough's secondary schools. The council eventually went into another re-organisation, creating the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate, a co-ordinated partnership between many of
2583-489: The halt. The area saw wide-ranging development in the 1930s. The developments were part of the Metropolitan Railway’s plans to bring customers to its railway by developing the surrounding countryside – an area marketed as Metro-land . The first development in Rayners Lane was in 1927 when Metropolitan Railway Country Estates Ltd. purchased land north of the station. The development, named Harrow Garden Village ,
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2646-470: The highest white British population were: The lowest wards meanwhile were: Since 2005, on the last Sunday in June Harrow Council hosts Under One Sky - Harrow's largest festival, to celebrate and the joint communities of Harrow. This has a programme of dance, world music, sports activity, youth music, spoken word, free children's activity, a carnival parade, information and stalls, health promotion,
2709-606: The largest membership of any single synagogue in the whole of Europe . Harrow also has a sizable Muslim community, about 1 in 10 of its population. As per the 2011 census, Harrow has a larger than average Jewish, Hindu and Muslim population. In a national detailed Land Use Survey by the Office for National Statistics in 2005 it was found that the London Borough of Harrow had the second highest proportion of land being domestic gardens: 34.7% of all 326 districts in England; this compared with
2772-585: The neighbouring London Borough of Barnet in 2013 after disagreements with the local authority over their former home Underhill Stadium . Five of the 30 cricket clubs which play in the Middlesex County Cricket League are based in the London Borough of Harrow: Harrow, Harrow St Mary's, Harrow Town, Kenton and Stanmore. Hatch End Cricket Club previously played at Shaftesbury playing fields in Hatch End but following an arson attack on their clubhouse and
2835-527: The official youth voice for the council and are in constant communication with the council on all youth matters. The London Borough of Harrow was historically in the heart of an area known as " Metro-land " and therefore is very well served by the London Underground compared with other boroughs in Outer London . It is located near the northwestern extremity of the modern-day network, with 4 lines serving
2898-503: The old parish of Harrow on the Hill outside the urban district were therefore split into three new parishes called Harrow Weald , Wealdstone and Wembley (the latter now part of the London Borough of Brent ). Wealdstone and Wembley were both made into urban districts at the same time. The urban district was significantly enlarged by the Middlesex Review Order 1934 to take in the neighbouring urban district of Wealdstone and
2961-486: The original hilltop village and the adjoining hamlets of Roxeth , Sudbury and Greenhill . Greenhill subsequently developed into the modern town centre of Harrow following the opening of Harrow-on-the-Hill station there in 1880. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894 , which also said that parishes could no longer straddle district boundaries. The parts of
3024-429: The parishes of Harrow Weald, Pinner, Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore. The urban district was renamed from 'Harrow on the Hill' to just 'Harrow' as part of the 1934 expansion. Harrow Urban District was incorporated as a municipal borough on 4 May 1954. At the 1961 census, the borough had a population of 209,080, making it the most populous local government district in the administrative county of Middlesex. In 1965
3087-602: The people is the highest law." The following people and organisations have received the Freedom of the Borough of Harrow. London Assembly Sadiq Khan ( L ) Statutory Deputy Mayor Joanne McCartney ( L/Co ) London Assembly Lord Mayor Peter Estlin London boroughs ( list ) Vacant The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority , that scrutinises
3150-506: The period. The Pinner South ward was recorded as having the lowest crime rate out of all wards of Greater London in 2014/15. The London Borough of Harrow has 4 non league football clubs, including Wealdstone FC who play at The Vale , Harrow Borough F.C. who play at Earlsmead Stadium and Rayners Lane F.C. who play at the Tithe Farm Social Club. Barnet F.C. are also based in Harrow, having moved into The Hive Stadium from
3213-516: The same track towards Uxbridge . Eastbound Metropolitan line services run into central London via Harrow-on-the-Hill while eastbound Piccadilly line services run via South Harrow and Acton Town . Some westbound Piccadilly line trains terminate at the station by making use of a reversing siding. Four bus routes serve the area. The H12 runs between South Harrow and Stanmore ; the H9 and H10 run anticlockwise and clockwise routes of Harrow respectively and
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#17328588886813276-409: The station building at Rayners Lane tube station which opened in 1938. It was Grade II listed in 1994, noted for the mature design of its frontage and the variety of the surviving signage and fixtures. The Rayners Public House was Grade II listed in 2006 by Historic England . It is a notable example of 1930s public house architecture retaining much of its original joinery and fittings. It closed as
3339-486: The station. Beyond this area, terraced and semi-detached houses built in the 1930s form much of the district. In the 2021 census , 49.04% of households were reported to be terraced, the highest proportion of any ward in the London Borough of Harrow . The remainder were 32.29% semi-detached, 11.25% flats and 3.51% detached. Despite being a relatively small area, it boasts many retail chains. Religion in Rayners Lane ward (2021) The largest ethnic group in Rayners Lane ward in
3402-636: The village of Elstree straddled Harrow and Hertfordshire ; on 1 April 1993 Elstree was placed entirely in Hertfordshire (and its district of Hertsmere ). The local authority is Harrow Council, which meets at the Harrow Arts Centre in Pinner and has its main offices at the Council Hub on Kenmore Avenue in Wealdstone. Since 2000, for elections to the London Assembly , the borough forms part of
3465-400: The votes cast for that party across the whole of London using a modified D'Hondt allocation. A party must win at least 5% of the party list vote in order to win any seats. Members of the London Assembly have the post-nominal title "AM". The annual salary for a London Assembly member is approximately £60,416. Since its creation in 2000, sixteen Assembly members subsequently were elected to
3528-632: The ward were held in May 1978 in which three Conservative councillors were elected. Ward boundaries were revised in 2000 and most recently in 2020, taking effect in the 2022 council elections . As a result of the 2020 changes, the Rayners Lane ward lost the Harrow Garden Village area north of the station to the Pinner South ward. It also had its total number of councillors reduced from three to two. In 2022, Krishna Suresh ( Labour ) and Thaya Idaikkadar ( Conservative ) were elected as councillors to represent
3591-618: The ward while the Conservative Party took control of the council. Rayners Lane is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2021 by Krupesh Hirani (Labour) . It is also in the Harrow West parliamentary constituency which has been represented since 1997 by Gareth Thomas (Labour) . The Pinner South ward is part of the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner parliamentary constituency represented since 2019 by David Simmonds (Conservative) . Rayners Lane
3654-611: Was built by E.S. Reid and was laid out on garden suburb principles. Further developments followed after Tithe Farm south of the Piccadilly Line was sold to T.F. Nash Ltd. in about 1930. This was the widest-scale development in the Pinner area and consisted of cheap, mostly terraced housing. Nash excelled at advertising the estate, and in 1933 he constructed a temporary 35-foot illuminated wooden arch across Alexandra Avenue as part of an advertising promotion. Other developers were also active in
3717-540: Was closed in 2015 as part of budget cuts by Harrow Council despite objections raised during a public consultation. In addition to the Zoroastrian Centre , Rayners Lane Baptist Church and a Quaker Meeting House reside nearby. The Baptist church was founded in 1934 and dedicated to Janet Hoare, a missionary who died in India while still young. Her father became the first minister of the church. The Quaker Meeting House
3780-449: Was elevated to the House of Lords as the Green Party's first life peer in 2013, continuing to sit in the Assembly until May 2016. Sally Hamwee , Graham Tope , and Toby Harris were already peers when elected to the assembly, while Lynne Featherstone and Dee Doocey were created life peers after standing down from the Assembly. Val Shawcross , AM for Lambeth and Southwark , unsuccessfully contested Bermondsey and Old Southwark as
3843-405: Was formed in 1965, based on boundaries that had been established in 1934. The borough is made up of three towns: Harrow , Pinner and Stanmore , but also includes western parts of Edgware . The area of the modern borough broadly corresponds to the three ancient parishes of Harrow on the Hill , Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore (also known as Whitchurch), all of which were historically in
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#17328588886813906-478: Was from 1856 when two fields, Upper Rayners Field and Lower Rayners Field, were mentioned in a conveyance . These were named after the Rayner family, who moved from Ruislip to Pinner at the start of the 19th century. It is assumed the Rayners Lane roadway was given that name sometime before the Rayner family left the area in the 1870s. The roadway was often called Bourne Lane, because it crossed several streams, including
3969-673: Was the first in Harrow, erected in 1935. Rayners Lane F.C. and Broadfields United F.C. play at the Tithe Farm Sports & Social Club. As of the 2024/25 season, Rayners Lane play in the Isthmian League South Central Division . In 2021, Broadfields United entered a groundshare agreement with Rayners Lane having previously groundshared with Harefield United . They play in the Combined Counties League Premier Division North as of
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