The London Borough of Harrow is one of the northern outer London boroughs: as such much of the Metropolitan Green Belt land is within the Borough boundaries. Parks and open spaces range from the large area around Harrow-on-the-Hill to the smaller gardens and recreation grounds; there are also a number of spaces taken up with golf courses . It has been suggested that Harrow is continuously losing its green space and trees.
The main areas of open space are:
- Bentley Priory, Stanmore: 165 acres (66ha) open space; Site of Special Scientific Interest
- Canons Park: 45 acres (18ha) 18th century parkland
- Grim's Dyke Open Space, Harrow Weald
- Harrow Weald Common, Harrow Weald
- Headstone Manor Recreation Park: 57 acres (230,000 m2) including the Museum and Headstone Manor & Bessborough Cricket Club
- Pinner Park Farm tenant dairy farmers Hall & Sons: total 230 acres (0.93 km2)
- Stanmore Common: 120 acres (48ha); Local Nature Reserve
- Stanmore Country Park: 77.5 acres (31ha); Local Nature Reserve
- Streamside Reservation, alongside Yeading Brook, Pinner
Famous quotes containing the words harrow, parks, open and/or spaces:
““Who cares what they say? It’s a nice way to live,
Just taking what Nature is willing to give,
Not forcing her hand with harrow and plow.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.”
—Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)
“through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)