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)
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there. For there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)