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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harrow is a large town in Greater London, England, and serves as the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow. Lying about 10.5 miles (16.9 km) north-west of Central London and 5.4 miles (8.7 km) south of Watford. The wider borough is also made up of Pinner and Stanmore.

The modern town of Harrow grew out at the foot of Harrow Hill, in what was historically called Greenhill. With the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in the 19th century, the centre of Harrow moved to Greenhill and it grew as the unofficial "capital" of the Metroland suburbia in the early 20th century; the station is on one of the railway corridors between London and the Chilterns. Meanwhile, Harrow & Wealdstone station is on the West Coast Main Line. Workers were attracted to the area with the opening of several factories in Wealdstone; Harrow played a role in the development of photography by the large Kodak plant, which operated for more than a century.

Historically in the hundred of Gore, county of Middlesex, the merged Harrow was a municipal borough before it became a 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 the famous Harrow School. The modern-day town meanwhile is an established commercial centre of outer north-west London and houses a campus of the University of Westminster.

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 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 several chain stores typical on British high streets. There are also parades of shops throughout Station Road and the ascending, traditional College Road, and over 300 metres of a fully pedestranised shopping/café streets roads. A large Debenhams department store is on Station Road, as well as large Morrisons and Tesco superstores. Harrow has 1,128,050 square feet of total town centre floor space.

St George's and St Anns, give Harrow a stronger competitive retail standing. In 2015 Harrow ranked 99th in the Hot 100 UK retail locations published by CACI; it was 5th in Greater London. Harrow was ranked 59th in the nation-wide "High Street Investment Ranking" carried out by Knight Frank, and 6th in Greater London beaten by Uxbridge and Richmond.

Harrow, England, United Kingdom

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Harrow has a population of over 149,246 people. Harrow also forms the centre of the wider Harrow District which has a population of over 251,160 people. It is also a part of the larger Greater London area.

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Alexander Scott Carter |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇨🇦 Architect/Painter/Heraldic Artist Alexander Scott Carter is associated with Harrow. In 1911 he was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA).
Arthur Percival Starkey |
Architect Arthur Percival Starkey is associated with Harrow.
Edward Schröder Prior |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Edward Schröder Prior is associated with Harrow.
Axel Herman Haig |
🇸🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Painter/Etcher/Illustrator/Architect Axel Herman Haig is associated with Harrow. Haig produced perspective drawings for the leading architects of the day.
Basil Champneys |
Architect Basil Champneys is associated with Harrow. He was a founder member of the Art Workers Guild in 1884.
Arthur William Kenyon |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Arthur William Kenyon is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1923.
David Thomson |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Architect David Thomson is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1920.
Thomas Graham Jackson |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Glass Designer/Architect/Painter Thomas Graham Jackson is associated with Harrow. "No other architect has altered the appearance of Oxford so greatly as Jackson".
Henry Ingham Ashworth |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇺 Architect Henry Ingham Ashworth is associated with Harrow. During the 1930s Ashworth taught at the Bartlett, UCL and Regent Street Polytechnic.
Arnold Bidlake Mitchell |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Arnold Bidlake Mitchell is associated with Harrow. He also designed for Lott's Bricks, an instructional construction toy.
John Harold Gibbons |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect John Harold Gibbons is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1919.
Horace Field |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Horace Field is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1903.
John Gordon Allen |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect John Gordon Allen is associated with Harrow. He was the author of books on low-cost housing and was a member of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association.
James Macgregor |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Architect James Macgregor is associated with Harrow. In 1914-15 he worked as a draughtsman to Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944) in India.
Clough Williams-Ellis |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Architect Clough Williams-Ellis is associated with Harrow. He was an active supporter of the National Trust, and the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
Richard Norman Shaw |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Architect Richard Norman Shaw is associated with Harrow. He was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1897.
Herbert Salmon Hunt |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Herbert Salmon Hunt is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911.
Max Richard Hofler |
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect/Painter Max Richard Hofler is associated with Harrow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1933.