Harrow, London

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Harrow or Harrow-on-the-Hill is the principal town in the London Borough of Harrow. It is a suburban development situated 10.2 miles (16.4 km) west north-west of Charing Cross. It is one of ten major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan.

Harrow is widely known for Harrow School where Winston Churchill and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru attended. It also has a large campus for the University of Westminster near Northwick Park Hospital (although both these landmarks actually lie within the London Borough of Brent).

It also features a moderately large shopping area in the town centre. The main shopping district is located near Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station and Harrow Bus Station, and has two small shopping centres. The St. Ann's Shopping Centre (formerly the site of Heathfield High School for Girls), opened by Princess Diana in 1987, is the older of the two and contains an extensive food court. St. George's opened by Catherine Zeta Jones is a smaller mall, but features a gym and a 9-screen vue cinema. Complementing the shopping centres are a number of high street shops and a large Debenham's department store.

Districts of Harrow:

Contents

1 Twinning
2 Transport
3 Notable people born or brought up in Harrow
4 External links

Twinning

Harrow is twinned with:

Douai, France.

Transport

The area has excellent public transport links and is served by the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground and also by the National Rail services of Chiltern Railways and Silverlink. Stations in the area are:

Harrow-on-the-Hill station (Metropolitan Line & Chiltern Railways)
Harrow and Wealdstone station (Bakerloo Line & Silverlink)
North Harrow tube station (Metropolitan Line)
Northolt Park railway station (Chiltern Railways)
West Harrow tube station (Metropolitan Line)
South Harrow tube station (Piccadilly Line)
Sudbury Hill tube station (Piccadilly Line)
Rayners Lane tube station (Metropolitan Line & Piccadilly Line)

Harrow is near to the A40 and the M1 motorway.

The town centre also boasts a major Bus Station adjacent to Harrow-on-the-Hill station that serves as an important hub for buses in the area. Many routes to North and West London pass through this Station. Notable routes that pass through the station include:

The 140 route starting and terminating at Harrow Weald and Heathrow Airport
The 182 route starting and terminating at Harrow Weald and Brent Cross
The 183 route starting and terminating at Pinner and Golders Green Bus Station
The N18 nightbus which starts at Trafalgar Square and terminates at either Sudbury or Harrow Bus Station
The 258 route starting and terminating at Watford Junction and South Harrow Stn
The 114 route starting and terminating at Ruislip Stn and Mill Hill.

Notable people born or brought up in Harrow

Peter Andre, singer and husband of Jordan
Sir Roger Bannister, famous runner and neurologist
Mrs Beeton, 1st celebrity cook, lived in Hatch End
Lord Byron, poet, attended Harrow School
Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, educated at Harrow School
Gavin Fisher, engineer, former chief designer for the WilliamsF1 team
Tom Fletcher, singer/guitarist with McFly born in Harrow
Elton John, musician, born in Pinner
Simon Le Bon, musician, brought up in Pinner
Linsey Dawn McKenzie, topless model
Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist
Courtney Pine, jazz musician
Claire Rayner, agony aunt lives on the Hill
Lord Sutch, late eccentric politician

External links

[Harrow Times newspaper]
[Harrow College website]
[St Dominic's Sixth Form College Website]
[Harrow Agenda 21 Environmental Forum]
[Map] and [aerial photo] of from Multimap.com
Other
[Eggmeg Online Calendar listing events in Harrow Borough]

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