The London Borough of Harrow () is a

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in northwest

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; 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,

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to the south and

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to the west plus the

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districts of Three Rivers and Hertsmere to the north. The local authority is

Harrow London Borough Council Harrow London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. It is currently controlled by the Conservative P ...

. 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 Stanmore is part of the London Borough of Harrow in London. It is centred northwest of Charing Cross, lies on the outskirts of the London urban area and includes Stanmore Hill, one of the highest points of London, at high. The district, whi ...

, but also includes western parts of

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Administrative history

The modern borough has its roots in three

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: Harrow on the Hill and the much smaller areas of

Great Stanmore Stanmore is part of the London Borough of Harrow in London. It is centred northwest of Charing Cross, lies on the outskirts of the London urban area and includes Stanmore Hill, one of the highest points of London, at high. The district, whic ...

and

Little Stanmore Little Stanmore was an ancient parish of Middlesex which is today the residential area of Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow, England. Toponymy The name 'Stanmore' means "pond made of stone". Little Stanmore was named to distinguish ...

(also known as Whitchurch). These had consistent boundaries from the

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down to the modern era. Pinner became independent of ''Harrow on the Hill'' in 1766 and the remaining area split into four daughter parishes in 1894:

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, Harrow, Wealdstone and

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(the latter now part of the

London Borough of Brent The London Borough of Brent () is a London borough in north-west London. It borders the boroughs of Harrow to the north-west, Barnet to the north-east, Camden to the east, the City of Westminster to the south-east, as well as the Royal Borou ...

Harrow Urban District was formed in 1934 as an

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by the Middlesex Review Order 1934, as a merger of the former area of

Harrow on the Hill Urban District Harrow on the Hill was an urban district in Middlesex, England from 1894 to 1934.Wealdstone Urban District and most of

Hendon Rural District Hendon was a rural district in Middlesex, England from 1894 to 1934. The rural district was established in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894, consisting of the following parishes: The parish of Hendon became an urban district in the ...

. The local authority was Harrow Urban District Council. The urban district gained the status of

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on 4 May 1954 and the urban district council became Harrow Borough Council. The 50th anniversary of the incorporation as a borough was celebrated in April 2004, which included a visit by

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. In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished, and its former area was transferred to

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from Middlesex under the London Government Act 1963 to form the London Borough of Harrow. It is the only London borough to replicate almost exactly the unchanged boundaries of a single former district. This was probably because its population was large enough; according to the 1961 census, it had a population of 209,080, making it the largest local government district in Middlesex. Harrow's boundaries, however, have been altered slightly, as it originally included part of

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; on 1 April 1993 this was transferred to

(and its district of Hertsmere). The coat of arms were first 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

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The motto reads as "Salus Populi Suprema Lex" which translates from Latin as "The well-being of the people is the highest law."

Demographics

Location

Its site on and near the greenbelt and ease of access to

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(20 minutes by train to

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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.

Ethnicity

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

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and

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). The borough can also claim to have the largest concentration of

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in the UK and Ireland as well as having the highest density of

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as well as

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in the UK. Wards with the highest white British population were: *Pinner *Pinner South (a long-stretched ward covering Pinner Village, the area west of North Harrow and Rayners Lane, and east of Eastcote) *Stanmore Park (an area mostly covering

) The lowest wards meanwhile were: *Kenton East (the area west of Honeypot Lane, bordering Kenton Lane), *Queensbury (the area north of the station, around Honeypot Lane) 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, a world food zone and outside radio broadcast.

Religion

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

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people live in

and Hatch End. The

Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue is situated in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, England, and had the largest community of any single Orthodox synagogue in Europe as of 2012. It is a constituent of the United Synagogue (mainstream Or ...

boasts the largest membership of any single

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in the whole of

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. 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.

Other

In a national detailed Land Use Survey by the

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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

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's 34.6%.Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
published alongside the data of the 2011 census see Physical Environment.

Arts and culture

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 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 Headstone Manor is a 14th-century Grade I listed moated manor house in Headstone, London, Headstone, England, and today a part of the Headstone Manor and Museum. Headstone Manor & Museum is a museum of the site itself as well as Harrow more gene ...

, and Grade II listed buildings include Bentley Priory, Grim's Dyke and

Harrow and Wealdstone station Harrow & Wealdstone is a London Underground and railway station on the Watford DC line and West Coast Main Line in Harrow and Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow. It is on the line from London Euston station. It is also the northern te ...

Economy

Major employers included

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, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and

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, which formally has its headquarters in Harrow.

Crime

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 the period. The Pinner South ward was recorded as having the lowest crime rate out of all wards of Greater London in 2014/15.

Sport and leisure

The London Borough of Harrow has 4 non league football clubs:

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, who moved to The Hive Stadium from the neighbouring London Borough of Barnet in 2013 who play in the

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; and three non-League clubs:

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who play at The Vale,

who play at Earlsmead Stadium and

Rayners Lane F.C. Rayners Lane F.C. are a football club based in Rayners Lane in the London Borough of Harrow, England. They are members of the . History Rayners Lane Football Club was established in 1933. By the 1960s the club had joined the Spartan League. T ...

who play at the Tithe Farm Social Club. 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 a subsequent failure to raise enough funds to build a new one, the club moved to Elstree in 2011. Harrow also had a professional

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team when

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played at The Hive Stadium in 2014 and 2015. The club relocated to Ealing from 2016 onwards.

Governance

Harrow is divided into 21 wards, each represented by three councillors on

. After the most recent council elections, the borough is controlled by the Labour party. The number of councillors are as follows: Conservative 31, Labour 24. Revised ward boundaries will be used for the May 2022 local elections following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission which made its final recommendations in May 2019.

Education

The borough is often perceived as having a good educational record, and features many state-funded primary and secondary schools as well as a handful of large tertiary colleges. For a long time the secondary schools of Harrow did not feature integrated

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education, with all school leavers having to join the tertiary colleges such as Harrow College and

Stanmore College Stanmore College is a small college for further education in the London Borough of Harrow. It was established in 1987 as one of the borough's three tertiary colleges, originally called Elm Park College. In 1994 it was renamed to its present name t ...

, or the faith-based

St Dominic's Sixth Form College St Dominic's Sixth Form College is a selective Roman Catholic sixth form college on Harrow on the Hill, England founded in 1878, originally founded as a boarding school. The college was opened and initiated by Cardinal Hume. The college was a ...

. The tertiary system was implemented in 1987 after years of discussions and delays, with Harrow becoming 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 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 Salvatorian College is an academy for boys between the ages of 11-16, situated in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow, founded by Gabriel Enderle. The spiritual founder of the college is considered to be Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan. ...

and

Sacred Heart Language College The Sacred Heart Language College is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls located in Wealdstone, London, England. History Sacred Heart High School was founded in 1907 by the Sisters of St Chretienne who had fled religious persecution i ...

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 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

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and John Lyon School for boys and North London Collegiate School for girls which consistently rank as among the best schools in the country. Notable independent primary schools include Orley Farm School and Reddiford School, both of which are

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

. There are also a number of

voluntary aided school A voluntary aided school (VA school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a religious organisation), contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school. In ...

s in the Borough. These include:

(Roman Catholic, Boys), Sacred Heart Language College (Roman Catholic, Girls) and Moriah Jewish Day School (Jewish, Co-ed). There are two

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high schools; Kingsley High School (Co-ed) and Shaftesbury High School (Co-ed). Other state secondary schools in the London Borough of Harrow are: Whitefriars High School (Co-ed); Bentley Wood High School (Girls);

Canons High School Canons High School (CHS) is an academy school situated in Edgware, Middlesex in the eastern part of the London Borough of Harrow. It also has an attached sixth form centre which forms part of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate. The school was form ...

(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 Rooks Heath School (formerly known as Rooks Heath High School,Rooks Heath College and before that Roxeth Senior School) is a state secondary school and Sixth Form, in South Harrow in the London Borough of Harrow. It is a mixed comprehensive scho ...

(Co-ed);

Whitmore High School Whitmore High School is a state secondary school in the London Borough of Harrow. The school's students are mostly drawn from the wider Harrow area. In March 2015, the school was judged "Outstanding" by Ofsted for the second time. History Wh ...

(Co-ed). Mountview High School in Wealdstone - a comprehensive school formed out of Whitefriars Secondary Modern in 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. ;GCSE examination performance * ''The table on shows the percentage of students gaining five A* to C grades, including English and Maths, for state schools in the London Borough of Harrow'' * ''The rightmost column shows the percentage of students gaining five A* to C grades, in five core subjects - maths, English, two science qualifications, a foreign language and either history or geography.'' * Source:

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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 the official youth voice for the council and are in constant communication with the council on all youth matters.

Notable residents

Districts and postcodes

Transport

The London Borough of Harrow was historically in the heart of an area known as "

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" and therefore is very well served by the

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compared with other boroughs in Outer London. It is located near the northwestern extremity of the modern-day network, with 4 lines serving the area. The Bakerloo and Jubilee lines terminate in the borough, at Harrow and

respectively. Meanwhile, the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines pass through the southern edge of the borough on shared track before both terminating at

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. The

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terminates just outside Harrow at Edgware tube station in the London Borough of Barnet. The London Overground also serves the borough, sharing track with the Bakerloo line between Queens Park and Harrow & Wealdstone station, Harrow & Wealdstone before it continues beyond the latter station to eventually terminate at Watford Junction. The numerous National Rail, London Overground and

stations in the borough are: * Canons Park tube station, Canons Park * Harrow & Wealdstone station, Harrow & Wealdstone * Harrow-on-the-Hill station, Harrow-on-the-Hill * Hatch End railway station, Hatch End * Headstone Lane railway station, Headstone Lane * North Harrow tube station, North Harrow * Pinner tube station, Pinner * Rayners Lane tube station, Rayners Lane * South Harrow tube station, South Harrow * Stanmore tube station, Stanmore * Sudbury Hill tube station, Sudbury Hill * Sudbury Hill Harrow railway station, Sudbury Hill Harrow * West Harrow tube station, West Harrow 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 a car or van, 1.6%.

Town twinning

Harrow is town twinning, twinned with: * Douai, France

Freedom of the Borough

The following people and organisations have received the Freedom of the City, Freedom of the Borough of Harrow.

Individuals

* Winston Churchill, Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill : 30 December 1955. * Roger Bannister, Sir Roger Bannister : May 2004. * Keith Toms: 26 November 2020.

Military Units

* 131 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, 131 Independent Commando Squadron, Royal Engineers, Corps of Royal Engineers Army Reserve (United Kingdom), (Volunteers): 10 March 1983. * 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment Royal Corps of Signals: 10 March 1983. * 257 (Southern) General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): 10 March 1983. * RAF Stanmore Park: 20 October 1988. * RAF Bentley Priory: 20 October 1988. * Civilian Units * Roxeth & Harrow Company, Church Lads' & Church Girls' Brigade: 20 October 1994 * Royal British Legion (Harrow Branch): 18 July 1996. * Girls’ Brigade North West London District: 1 May 2014. * List of Air Training Corps squadrons, 1454 (Harrow) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1 May 2014.

References

External links

Harrow Council

Harrow Borough F.C.

Metros Running Club
(Harrow road running club)
Old Salvatorians (unofficial)

''Harrow Times''
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