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Grim's Dyke was built as a country mansion for Victorian painter Sir Frederick Goodall, and from 1890-1911 was the home of the librettist Sir William Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was converted to a hotel in 1970. Formal gardens and woodland surround the house and the walled garden now houses the hotel annexe. The ornamental woodland contains a number of ponds and a lake with the remains of a boathouse and artificial rockwork.

Grovefields is a steep grassy slope on one side of Harrow Hill, rising up towards the parish church of St Mary's, where there was evidence of early medieval, or possibly earlier, agricultural use. The land here was part of the estate of Harrow Manor in the C11th and later part of Rectory Manor estate. Now public open space, it is traversed by tarmac paths with perimeter trees, and has fine views over Harrow. The hedged War Memorial is on the former site of the village pound.

Harrow Cemetery was founded by Harrow Burial Board in 1887 and consecrated in 1888. The cemetery has a small one-storey red-brick chapel but the entrance lodge, described as in 'Norman Shaw style', was demolished in 1985. At the entrance are wooden gates and piers, leading to a straight axial drive with lawns on either side. Cemetery planting includes a couple of araucaria, flowering cherries, holly and yew, and four London planes along the road boundary and the southern part has formal flower beds with some exotic shrubs.

Harrow Garden Village was one of a number of residential estates developed in the 1920s and '30s along the Metropolitan Railway running north-west out of London that came to be known as Metro-land. Prior to this the area was rural, Rayners Lane once an old roadway through medieval fields. From the outset Harrow Garden Village was laid out with attention to landscaping and much of this remains in evidence. Rayner's Lane, originally lined with elm trees, still has a number of fine mature oak trees. There are communal gardens, grass verges and street trees, as well as a recreation ground with tennis courts.

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Flambards or Flamberts was probably built in the C14th and by 1664 was the largest house in the village of Harrow on the Hill. The estate was purchased in 1767 by Francis Herne for whom Capability Brown designed a landscape park, later known as Harrow Park. From 1805-23 the estate was the home of John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick who also improved the grounds. A governor of Harrow School, he allowed the boys to use the grounds for recreation. In 1831 part of the estate including a newly built house and Harrow Park was purchased by Revd Phelps, a master at Harrow, for use by the school. The freehold was taken over by the Harrow Park Trust in 1885 and the park was developed for school uses. It was later largely converted as a golf course with a small part as a nature reserve. Mature oaks and a lake on the golf course appear to date from Brown's landscaping, and there are yews, deodars and Wellingtonia near the house.

Harrow Recreation Ground opened in 1885, the land purchased as a result of fund-raising initiated by one of the Masters at Harrow School. Laid out with facilities for sports clubs and 4 areas for public recreation, the park has long been associated with Harrow St Mary's Sports Club and Harrow Bowls Club, the latter founded in 1902. Original wrought iron gates are found at a number of entrances. An avenue of oak trees were planted along a central path by outgoing Mayors of the borough from 1989-2004.

Harrow Weald Cemetery is adjacent to All Saints' Churchyard and was established in 1937. An avenue of silver birch flanks the main tarmac drive from the gates and entrance on Uxbridge Road. Either side of the drive the graves are set among grass with a row of conifers to the eastern boundary, and various ornamental, evergreen trees are planted among the graves. At the back of the site is a newer section for graves, and woodland to the north. There are some fine trees, including large Sequoia and other mature trees. At the entrance on Clamp Hill is a small brick lodge that houses Harrow's Cemetery Office.

Harrow Weald Common is a remnant of the once extensive woodland of the Forest of Middlesex. Following the Enclosure Acts, gravel extraction was granted as one of the common rights of Harrow parishioners, and this industry was carried on until the late C19th. Adjacent to the common is an area known as The City Open Space, once the site of cottages built for employees of the brick and tile works. Grim's Dyke Open Space is named after the ancient earthwork that runs for 3 miles between Harrow Weald Common and Pinner Green, its original purpose unknown.

This site is a vestige of the C19th landscape park of Harrow Weald Park, a property built in 1805, prior to which it formed part of Harrow Weald Common. The house was subsequently demolished by the local council and homes for the elderly were built. Today much of the remaining site is largely built over with high quality housing, although ornamental woodland, a lake known as Squirrels Lake and notable specimen trees survive, with fine mature trees found along Brookshill Road.

The land for Harrow Weald Recreation Ground was donated to the parish in 1895 by Thomas Blackwell JP, as recorded in a stone plaque set over the entrance arch of the small brick and timber lodge on the corner of High Road. The recreation ground was extended in 1937 when Harrow Council purchased the lodge and garden of Belmont, following the death of its owner Charles James Ward, who was a member of the parish council and benefactor of Harrow Hospital.

Headstone Manor Recreation Ground is a remnant of a medieval estate once owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury, and the moated manor house remains in the park. The land was worked as a farm until the 1920s, and in 1925 it was sold to Hendon Rural District Council and opened as Headstone Park in 1928. Headstone Manor became a Museum and Heritage Centre in 1968 and since 1986 has been Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre.

Up to 1920 Kenton remained a small village but it grew rapidly as housing was built, largely as a result of the railway coming to the area. Laid out c.1920s, pre-WWII Kenton Recreation Ground was smaller, the north-west corner then being taken up with Wealdstone Sewage Farm, and part of the site was a Council rubbish tip.