92-528: West Harrow is a suburban area in the London Borough of Harrow that forms the western part of Harrow , historically in the county of Middlesex . The area was rural until the late 19th century when the Metropolitan Railway expanded into Harrow. In the early 20th century, the area was developed into predominantly residential estates. At the start of the 20th century, fields and farmland comprised
184-534: A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) adjacent to another SSSI called Bentley Priory Nature Reserve which comes under Stanmore . The area also has the highest elevation in Harrow, as high as 492 feet (150 m) above sea level. There is also agricultural land close by the town, on fields at the eastern side of Harrow on the Hill, on Watford Road. This open farmland is only half a mile away from Harrow's town centre and
276-507: A 55-acre site at Kodak Harrow , employing 5,500 people, including a research centre. This facility operated for 125 years. The long chimney has been a landmark in Harrow ever since. In 1914, a major department store named Sopers opened on Station Road. The site became a Debenhams store; it closed in May 2021 after the collapse of the Debenham's chain. Its facade dated from the 1960s. During
368-475: 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
460-571: 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
552-474: A carnival parade, information and stalls, health promotion, 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 -
644-455: A decade after St Anns, gave Harrow a stronger competitive retail standing. On one index, the town centre's league position went from 106th (out of 1,000) to 71st (out of 1,400) from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Harrow's competing shopping centres were recognised to be Watford , Uxbridge and Brent Cross Shopping Centre . A 2003 council report showed that Harrow was less competitive as a retail centre by comparison. In 2015, Harrow ranked 99th in
736-408: 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
828-455: A large increase in property redevelopment of its existing Edwardian and 1920s to 1940s housing stock. Harrow 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
920-455: A road which by-passes the mainly-pedestrianised and modernised shopping area based around College Road and St Anns Road. The name is also still used for the local electoral ward . It is possible that Greenhill went by an even older name, Norbury , c.1300, but the hamlet of Norbury has not been identified with certainty. The name may have been correspondent to Sudbury , being north of what was then Harrow Hill. The modern town centre of Harrow
1012-505: A separate ecclesiastical parish in 1896. The church building has been Grade II listed since 1994. The Metropolitan Railway connection dates from 1880 with the building of Harrow-on-the-Hill station , which led to a housebuilding boom and a population of 4,892 by 1902. Developments westward along the railway in the Headstone and Pinner as well as Roxborough and Wealdstone engulfed Greenhill with new developments, and soon enough there
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#17328510961911104-583: A single pre-1965 district with no changes to its boundaries. There has since been an adjustment to the borough's northern boundary, where 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
1196-407: 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
1288-488: A town centre, but its proximity to Harrow town centre and North Harrow provides residents with walkable alternatives for amenities. In the area near West Harrow station , Victorian and Edwardian terraces dominate the urban landscape. Many of these have now been converted into flats. Further south near Shaftesbury Circle, the neighbourhood consists of mostly inter-war housing stock, including many maisonettes. There are also shopping facilities on Shaftesbury Circle itself. In
1380-525: A £1 million grant from the Mayor of London that will go towards a new public square and a "pop-up test eatery" at the site of the former Cumberland Hotel on Lyon Road, expected to be completed by 2020. The 1930s art deco facade of the Safari Cinema, which has been hidden since the 1960s, is set to be restored from 2020. The council aims to invest over a billion in the town centres of Harrow and Wealdstone and
1472-684: Is above average. The ethnic minority population includes a large and established Gujarati Indian community, who originally settled in large numbers in the borough after their expulsion from Uganda in 1972. The highest life expectancy (as of 2009–2013) for females was 89.5 years in Headstone North, and for males was 83.8 years in West Harrow. The lowest expectancies were 82.4 years in Wealdstone and 78.6 years in Greenhill respectively. The median age
1564-607: Is adjacent to Northwick Park Hospital and Northwick Park open space. The farm borders Harrow Park and other open spaces and golf courses that are within Harrow on the Hill; other open spaces include: The Grove open space and Harrow Recreation Ground near the town centre; West Harrow Recreation Ground; Kenton Recreation Ground; Alexandra Park in South Harrow ; Newton Park in Rayners Lane ; Byron Recreation Ground in Wealdstone ; and
1656-548: Is classified as one of 13 metropolitan centres in the London Plan . The area has two shopping centres, St Anns and St George's , containing chain stores typical of British high streets. There are also parades of shops throughout Station Road and the ascending, traditional College Road, and over 300 metres (980 ft) of a fully pedestranised shopping/café streets roads (north of St Anns). A large Debenhams department store (174,000 square feet (16,200 m ) of floorspace)
1748-592: 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) . West Harrow is located on the western side of Harrow , roughly covering the area west of Bessborough Road, south of Pinner Road and north of Whitmore Road. The area lacks
1840-481: Is the second safest borough in the Greater London Authority area. Vaughan Primary School and Grange Primary School provide primary education to the area while Whitmore High School (previously Lascelles Boys Secondary School and Lascelles Girls Secondary School) provides secondary education and sixth-form studies. In 2007, Harrow Council successfully bid for a £31.5 million redevelopment of Whitmore under
1932-401: The 2021 census , 31.5% of households in the ward were reported as semi-detached, 28.3% terraced, 24.5% flats and 10.9% converted or shared properties. West Harrow ranked first in the London Borough of Harrow for households classified as Caravan or other mobile structure, with a total of 4 (0.11%). Religion in West Harrow ward (2021) According to the 2021 census , 39.5% of the population of
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#17328510961912024-621: The Building Schools for the Future programme. The new building opened in 2010 and a sixth form block was added in 2015. The Anglican church of St Peter’s, consecrated in 1913, serves the area. Falling attendance led to a temporary closure in 1982 before reopening in 1989. The building is considered of architectural interest and was Grade II listed in 1980. The original site of the Shri Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple
2116-558: The Harrow East constituency which is represented by Bob Blackman ( Conservative ). Harrow is best known for Harrow School . An independent boarding school for boys, founded in 1572, Harrow School is considered one of the finest secondary schools in the world. The nearby John Lyon School is another boys' independent school, while another known school is the North London Collegiate School for girls located further in
2208-461: The Local Government Act 1894 , which also said that parishes could no longer straddle district boundaries. The parts of 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
2300-483: The London Borough of Harrow , governed under the local authority of Harrow London Borough Council . The West Harrow ward dates back to 1934 when it was established as a ward of the Harrow Urban District , albeit ward boundary revisions since then have changed the area it represents. Ahead of the 2022 revisions, focus groups noted the ward lacked community identity. The changes proposed by the council compacted
2392-492: The National Coal Board ) have been regenerated into new mixed use buildings in the 2010s, whereas on Pinner Road behind St George's centre a new eight storey development called Trident Point was built which includes a Morrisons supermarket opened in 2013. The former post-office sorting building on College Road, next to the train station, remained vacant for some years until plans for a 19-storey skyscraper were approved by
2484-497: 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 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
2576-495: 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 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
2668-492: The Council Hub on Kenmore Avenue in Wealdstone. Since 2000, for elections to the London Assembly , the borough forms part of 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
2760-505: The County of Stafford, Hat Manufacturer, who near this town had both legs severed from his body by the railway train. With great fortitude, he bore a second amputation by the surgeons and died from loss of blood, August 7th 1838, aged 33 years." On 26 November 1870, two trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone station , killing 9 and injuring 44. On 8 October 1952, three trains collided at Harrow & Wealdstone station, killing 112 people. Of
2852-549: The H19 and 183 routes and on Treve Avenue for the H11, 140 and 114 routes. The 640 school service and the N140 night bus also stop on Treve Avenue. References Sources London Borough of Harrow The London Borough of Harrow ( / ˈ h ær oʊ / ) is a London borough in northwest London , England ; it forms part of Outer London . It borders four other London boroughs – Barnet to
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2944-416: The Hill into urban districts . The new town centre which had grown up around the station became known simply as Harrow to distinguish it from the original hilltop village. The name of the urban district which contained both places remained Harrow on the Hill until 1934 when the district was enlarged and renamed just Harrow. The Harrow Urban District was incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1954, with
3036-511: The Hot 100 UK retail locations published by CACI ; it was 5th in Greater London, behind Croydon , Kingston upon Thames , Bromley and Enfield Town . In 2018, Harrow was ranked 59th in the nationwide "High Street Investment Ranking" carried out by Knight Frank , and 6th in Greater London beaten by Uxbridge and Richmond . The Wealdstone district has a strong industrial connection, having been
3128-424: 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
3220-521: The Station Road corridor in between. The borough of Harrow has a leafy, suburban character, much of which is a legacy of it being at the centre of the Metroland developments of the early 20th century. The town centre is about 220 feet (67 m) above sea level, almost 200 feet (61 m) below the top of Harrow Hill , which is an outlying knoll. The hill is half a mile south of the town centre, and
3312-760: The Tithe Farm Social Club. Barnet F.C. are also based in Harrow, having moved into The Hive Stadium from 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
3404-514: The UK and Ireland as well as having the highest density of Gujarati Hindus in the UK. Wards with 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,
3496-718: 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 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
3588-506: The West Harrow ward identified as White, followed by Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh at 36.3% and Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African at 10.7%. The ward ranked first in the London Borough of Harrow for people identifying as Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups at 5.66%. In the 2021 census, 37.0% of respondents identified as Christian followed by 19.6% as Hindu and 18.4% as Muslim . The ward ranked third in Harrow among those identifying as No Religion at 15.86%. Harrow
3680-486: The area that is now present-day West Harrow. Situated on Bessborough Road at the western foot of Harrow Hill , three farms (Honeybun, Roxborough, and Roxeth) were later developed into what became known as the Bessborough Estate. The Roxeth farmhouse still stands and gained Grade II listed status in 1951. As the Metropolitan Railway extended to Harrow late in the 19th century, residential developments, including on
3772-460: 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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3864-533: 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
3956-535: 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 , 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;
4048-676: 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 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
4140-488: The borough in Edgware . Harrow is also home to a large University of Westminster campus, located near Northwick Park and the hospital . It serves as the university's base for Media, Arts and Design. The school dates back to 1897 specialising in art, photography and fashion, becoming a college in the 1960s under the name Harrow College of Higher Education. It merged with Polytechnic of Central London (PCL) in 1990, now known as
4232-574: The borough was found to be the "least friendly" in London. Average house prices within the borough stood at £479,682 as of 2017. Harrow Council has been governed by the Labour Party since 2014. The town of Harrow generally is represented by 13 wards , each represented by three councillors. Harrow is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since May 2021 by Krupesh Hirani ( Labour ). Prior to this, it
4324-503: 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
4416-642: 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
4508-446: The council in 2015. The development, called Harrow Square, was partly completed with 318 apartments across four buildings in 2018. It includes a bottom floor 1,450 square metres (15,600 sq ft) library still under construction which will replace the current Gayton Library on St John's Road. The building next to it, formerly First National House, has been refurbished into luxury apartments called The Hub. The borough received
4600-496: The dead, 64 were railway employees on their way to work. This is the greatest loss of life in any United Kingdom railway accident in peacetime. Although The Blitz is generally claimed to have started on 7 September 1940, many sources state that one of the earliest bombing raid from the Luftwaffe occurred in Harrow and Wealdstone on 22 August 1940. It caused damage to cinemas, houses and a bank, but with no fatalities. Although Harrow
4692-522: 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
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#17328510961914784-598: 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 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
4876-560: The entire borough and stretches into neighbouring boroughs: west into Ruislip and Northwood , and east to Edgware and Wembley . The postcodes for Harrow town itself are HA1, HA2 and HA3. Harrow is 1.9 miles (3.1 km) from Pinner, 2.7 miles (4.3 km) each from Wembley, Stanmore and Northolt, and 3.6 miles (5.8 km) from Ruislip. Central Harrow forms a commercial hub in the north-west of Greater London, with many retail outlets and commercial offices, and increasingly residential apartments in more recent regeneration schemes. Harrow
4968-413: The entire town including its localities had a population of 149,246 at the 2011 census , whereas the wider borough (which also contains Pinner and Stanmore ) had a population of 250,149. The original settlement was at Harrow on the Hill , atop the 408 feet (124 m) Harrow Hill. The modern town centre of Harrow developed at the foot of the hill, in an area historically called Greenhill , following
5060-559: 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
5152-438: The grounds of Headstone Manor . Much of Kenton , and before 1716 all of Pinner , were parts of Harrow. Pinner is now a separate district within the borough of Harrow. Harrow Weald is the district north of Wealdstone , and both of these are historically also part of Harrow. It is the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow, which also includes the towns of Pinner and Stanmore . The Harrow postcode area covers
5244-483: The highest in the UK. A large number of Jewish people live in Stanmore and Hatch End . The Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue boasts 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
5336-454: The home of Wealdstone F.C. , was sold to Tesco and demolished. In its place a new large Tesco superstore was built. The town centre has undergone a new wave of redevelopment. In 2011, the one-way single lane section of Station Road was widened to allow two-way bus traffic. The 11 storey luxury apartments of Bradstowe House were completed in 2016 after long delays. Former office buildings on Lyon Road (including Coal House, once belonging to
5428-429: The inter-war period Harrow had grown into a suburb. Almost two-thirds of housing stock in the present day Borough of Harrow dates back to the interwar period. The modern town of Harrow and much of the borough overall has been defined historically by the growth of the railways, as Harrow expanded and saw housing developments as a result of the building of the Metropolitan Railway into what was, in early Victorian times,
5520-539: The lease on the gallery space was not renewed. The site of the former gallery is now occupied by oneforty, a multipurpose arts venue. West Harrow Station is on the Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan line . Trains run northbound services to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane and southbound into central London via Harrow-on-the-Hill . Bus services don’t serve the station directly. There are stops nearby on Pinner Road (A404) for
5612-429: The location for the manufactures Winsor & Newton (artists' materials), Whitefriars Glass, and Kodak . The town includes its localities within the Harrow post town: Harrow on the Hill , Harrow Weald , Headstone , North Harrow , Kenton , Rayners Lane , South Harrow , Wealdstone and West Harrow . The Borough's population was 250,149 in 2011. Harrow Borough's proportion of Jewish, Muslim and Hindu residents
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#17328510961915704-399: 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 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
5796-468: The nearby Roxborough Park, sprung up in the surrounding area. In 1898, development began on the roads in the Bessborough Estate and they were largely completed by 1911. The roads in the estate were named after former Harrow School headmasters including Charles John Vaughan (Vaughan Road), George Butler or Henry Montagu Butler (Butler Road and Butler Avenue), Robert Carey Sumner (Sumner Road) and Joseph Drury (Drury Road). West Harrow Recreation Ground
5888-527: 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
5980-500: The opening of Harrow-on-the-Hill station on the Metropolitan Railway in 1880. Harrow became the unofficial "capital" of the Metroland suburbia in the early 20th century. Harrow & Wealdstone station on the West Coast Main Line had opened in 1837, but was more distant from Harrow, lying 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the hill. Workers were drawn to the area by the opening of several factories in Wealdstone ; Harrow
6072-510: 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 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
6164-528: The people is the highest law." The following people and organisations have received the Freedom of the Borough of Harrow. Harrow, London Harrow ( / ˈ h ær oʊ / ) is a large town in Greater London , England, and serves as the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow . Lying about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north-west of Charing Cross and 5.4 miles (8.7 km) south of Watford ,
6256-405: The rural areas to the north-west of London. The borough now has many railway stations. Harrow has been the location of several serious train accidents. On 7 August 1838, Thomas Port died from injuries received in a train accident near Harrow . His gravestone in the parish churchyard of St Mary's , Harrow-on-the-Hill, states: "To the memory of Thomas Port, son of John Port of Burton-upon-Trent in
6348-572: The same area becoming the London Borough of Harrow on being transferred from Middlesex to Greater London in 1965. One of the oldest surviving buildings in what is today Harrow is the Grade I listed Headstone Manor from the 15th century. Harrow contributed to the growing photographic industry in the UK; a large industrial premises was built in 1890 by the American Eastman Kodak company in Wealdstone , and by 1965 there were over 100 buildings on
6440-488: 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 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
6532-457: The settlement contains historic architecture and has a village atmosphere. The steep climb towards the hill is clearly visible from Lowlands Road. Other parts of Harrow are not as affluent but are still mostly leafy, particularly the northern part called Harrow Weald . The rural northern slopes of Harrow, around Harrow Weald Common , are part of the Green Belt and contain a conservation area and
6624-661: The seven major boys' boarding schools in England as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 . The modern-day town meanwhile is an established commercial centre of outer north-west London and houses a campus of the University of Westminster . Harrow's name comes from Old English hearg = '(heathen) temple', which was probably on the hill of Harrow, where St. Mary's Church now stands. The name has been studied in detail by Keith Briggs . The original Greenhill hamlet derived its name from either an unidentified local green hill, or
6716-424: The station further renovated in 1989. In 2024, Harrow Council recommended a resident consultation after proposing West Harrow Recreation Ground and parts of Butler Road and Lance Road for designation as Local Areas of Special Character (LASC). The well-preserved quality of Victorian and Edwardian architecture was noted, as was the historical association of the street names to Harrow School. West Harrow lies within
6808-477: The town and borough's links with Kodak. The town underwent regeneration in the 1980s with the building of a bus station in College Road and the pedestrianisation of St Anns Road. A statue called "Skipping Katie" was unveiled by the local council in May 1987 to celebrate the completion of the pedestrianisation. The landmark was designed by James Butler inspired by watching his daughter skip . A plaque on Katie
6900-485: The ward and transferred some areas from neighbouring wards, including Harrow on the Hill , to reflect what the community identifies as West Harrow. Additionally, the number of councillors representing the ward was reduced from three to two. In 2022 , Labour candidates Rekha Shah and Asif Hussain were elected councillors to represent the ward while the Conservative Party took control of the council. West Harrow
6992-520: The ‘80s or ‘90s”. The Metropolitan Railway laid tracks through the area in 1904 as it extended towards Uxbridge . Initially, no station was built in the area. However, as the Bessborough Estate expanded, landowners and residents pressured the Metropolitan Railway to build one nearby ( Harrow-on-the-Hill being the closest at the time). In 1913, a wooden halt accessible from Vaughan Road was built. The station platforms were reconstructed in 1971 and
7084-480: Was added in 1923 and house building further west of the estate near Shaftesbury Avenue continued into the 1930s. The Metropolitan Railway marketed the developments of the early 20th century as Metro-land . In John Betjeman’s acclaimed documentary Metro-Land (1973) , he stands on Vaughan Road as he ponders the “nice little speculation” at the “foot of Harrow Hill, alongside the Metropolitan electric trains”, “built in
7176-491: Was built which was opened as St George's Shopping and Leisure Centre on St George's Day in 1996. The town's Woolworths store on Station Road closed and was replaced by a new branch inside St George's. Other landmarks built during the decade include the Hygeia building in 1991, which has an erected golden coloured sculpture of Roman goddess Hygeia facing the bus station. Furthermore, in 1991, Lower Mead stadium on Station Road,
7268-433: Was established for the central part of the ancient parish of Harrow on the Hill, including the old village and the adjoining hamlets of Greenhill, Roxeth , and Sudbury . By 1865, a series of roads had been built in Greenhill, including College, Roxborough, Kymberley, Headstone, Clarendon, Byron and St Anns - but few houses. A parish church, St John's Church, was built in 1866 on a farm and Greenhill subsequently became
7360-510: Was expected to be imminently redeveloped. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, many new office blocks were built in the town, especially in Lyon Road and the western end of College Road. In 1974, the Kodak Mural designed by Pentagram was completed on the first floor of the recently opened Civic Centre. It contains almost one thousand photographic tiles representing Harrow and designed to commemorate
7452-406: Was formed in 1965 as the only London borough unaffected by boundary changes. By the 1950s, Harrow was described as the "capital city of Metro-land ". The borough's council Civic Centre building complex was built in 1970–1972, opened 6 May 1973, on Station Road in Wealdstone . Six storeys high and designed by architect Eric Broughton, the building is considered "outdated and costly" in 2018 and
7544-409: Was formerly known as Greenhill, and was a small hamlet of farms at the foot of Harrow Hill. For almost a millennium, the centre of Harrow was atop the hill, but this began to change during the 19th century. Circa 1852, the village had 8 houses, 17 cottages, and one inn, with 141 people. This area was part of the hundred of Gore , in the historic county of Middlesex . In 1850 a local board district
7636-465: Was highest in Headstone North (40 years) and lowest in Greenhill and Wealdstone (both 33 years). The life expectancies for Harrow are lower than both Pinner and Stanmore in the borough. According to a 2018 survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the borough of Harrow was the "happiest" in London and scored higher than the English average. Adversely, in another survey by an estate agent in 2019
7728-519: Was imported from a manorial surname. It was not recorded in the Domesday Book but was mentioned as early as 1334 as Grenehulle . In addition, one or more families bearing the Greenhulle or Greenhill surname lived there from at least 1247, and are likely to have taken their name from this location. The name Greenhill survives and the local council has continued the name by using it for Greenhill Way,
7820-531: Was nothing left of the original village. . In 1899, the junction of Grove Hill and Lowlands Road is said to have been the scene of Britain's first fatal car accident. There is a plaque to commemorate this at the top of Grove Hill where it meets the High Street and Peterborough Hill. In Greenhill, there was a workmen's club from the 1860s and a public hall, Victoria Hall, by 1888. The Local Government Act 1894 converted local board districts such as Harrow on
7912-408: Was on Station Road. After Debenhams was liquidated, the site is to become an independent department store called The Landmark due to open on 14 October 2021. There are also large Morrisons and Tesco superstores. As of 2012, Harrow has 1,128,050 square feet (104,799 m ) of total town centre floorspace, the lowest of London's metropolitan centres. The creation of St George's in 1996, less than
8004-544: Was on Vaughan Road in West Harrow. It was established in 1976 but moved to a new location in Kenton in 1996 owing to the growing size of its congregation. West Harrow Recreation Ground provides access to various sports facilities, including tennis and basketball courts. A bowling green has been located in the park since its inception in 1923 and is home to the West Harrow Bowling Club. The Usurp Art Gallery and Studios
8096-525: Was opened in West Harrow in 2010 under the artistic direction of Poulomi Desai . It claimed to be the first and only artist-led space in Harrow with Desai describing it as an “experiment to see whether something can even be positioned in that space in that geographical location”. The gallery hosted workshops, exhibitions and other events for the community, with a stated emphasis on experimentatal media and engaging with culturally and neurodiverse communities. In 2019,
8188-500: Was represented by Navin Shah ( Labour ) between 2008 and 2021. Keekira Thammaih was the first Indian and a first Asian to be the Mayor of Harrow, England in 2000 – 2001. Since the 2010 general election , most of Harrow town has been part of the Harrow West parliamentary constituency, most recently represented by Gareth Thomas ( Labour ), but eastern districts such as Kenton fall within
8280-456: Was the base of the large Kodak factory , used for the manufacture of photographic materials and R&D , which was in operation for more than a century. Historically in the hundred of Gore in the county of Middlesex , Harrow became part of Greater London in 1965. Today, the historic area is distinguished as Harrow on the Hill and is a conservation area with listed buildings of Georgian architecture and home to Harrow School , one of
8372-698: Was then in Middlesex , it was classed as a London area by the civil defence as it came under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police . The very first air raid on the present day London area is believed to be the accidental bombing of Croydon Airport on 15 August 1940, which was then in Surrey . The town was part of the Harrow Urban District , a district council within the county of Middlesex , from 1934 until 1965, which also included parts of Edgware , Hendon , Wembley and Pinner . The London Borough of Harrow
8464-590: Was unveiled in 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to mark the 50th anniversary of the London Borough of Harrow. In the autumn of 1987, Diana, Princess of Wales visited Harrow, where she officially opened the new St Anns shopping centre amid a large crowd of locals. Located opposite the central train station on College Road, the centre was built on demolished buildings including Heathfield School for Girls , which moved away to Pinner in 1982. Nearby St Anns shopping centre, another indoor retail outlet
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