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Developed as a public park in the late 1960s/early '70s, Little Common is a remnant of the common that used to stretch from Pinner Hill. A semi-circular entranceway from Elm Park Road with brick piers and ornamental gates leads to a shrub-lined drive into the park, which has perimeter paths, and a playground in a wooded area. An elaborate path network can be seen among the trees, presumably a remnant of the original layout. From another entrance a public footpath links Waxwell Lane, via the Dell, to Elm Park Road.

Like the adjacent and much larger Stanmore Common, Little Common Stanmore is part of the old common lands of Stanmore. There were two manors, Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore, and the area was rural until the C20th. This small area contains woodland and four ponds, two Brewery Ponds and two Spring Ponds, probably created as village ponds. Of the latter, Pump Pond retains the old pump, while to the north Caesar's Pond may have existed in Roman times. The Brewery Ponds served Clutterbuck's Brewery. Overlooking Little Common are a group of C18th and C19th cottages and nearby is Stanmore Hall.

Named after E B Montesole, a Councillor and resident of Pinner, Montesoles Playing Field or Recreation Ground is on land acquired by the local Council for recreational use in 1935. A wooded area to the north contains a section of the ancient Grim's Dyke as well as remains of C19th chalk pits. Chalk extraction took place in Pinner from medieval times.

Although Newton Ecology Park opened in 1990 as part of Harrow's contribution to European Year of the Environment, the land had been farmed as early as Saxon times, common fields, a Victorian sewage farm and was then part of the Council's Rayners Lane Depot.

Newton Park West is backland open space to post-war council housing. It is chiefly playing fields with standard perimeter planting of birch, hawthorn, cherry and willow, but there is attractive planting of willows along the Roxbourne River.

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With the adjacent Canons Park, the grounds of North London Collegiate School are a fragment of the grand early C18th landscape of Canons laid out for the Duke and Duchess of Chandos. The estate is so-called after the Augustinian canons of St Bartholomew in Smithfield, who owned the Manor of Stanmore in 1086. The estate had various subsequent owners, notably William Hallett who rebuilt the house in 1760, and Sir Thomas Plumer, who may have sought Humphry Repton's advice on the landscape. The last private owner was Sir Arthur du Cros, for whom formal Arts & Crafts style gardens were laid out in 1910 by Charles Mallows, and were highly regarded. The estate was eventually broken up in the early C20th, the house and 10 acres of land purchased for the school in 1929. In addition to remnants of the C18th and C19th landscaping, the school grounds retain Mallows' formal gardens, particularly south-east of the main building, which is the core of Hallett's villa.

Paines Lane Cemetery opened in 1860, a modest cemetery without chapels or lodge and having a simple layout of cruciform walks. It was established here when efforts to enlarge Pinner's parish churchyard to provide burial ground for non-conformists failed. Among those buried here was Admiral Nelson's daughter Horatia. The cemetery was closed to burials in 1924.

Pinner Hill Golf Course was laid out in 1927 on the landscaped parkland of Pinner Hill House, the C18th house now the Clubhouse for Pinner Hill Golf Club, which was founded in 1928. There was an earlier house on the site in the 1630s, and among its owners were Lady Jane Brydges and A W Tooke. The estate was broken up for residential development after its sale in 1919. The pre-golf landscape character is predominantly C19th, but there are some remnants from the earlier period, including an icehouse near the house, as well as an old yew tree and C18th trees in the parkland.

Pinner Memorial Park is on land that was part of the West House estate, at one time the home of Lord Nelson's daughter Horatia. The last owners left in 1933 and in 1934 part of the grounds were acquired by Harrow UDC for public open space, initially known as Bennett's Park. Additional land was acquired in 1949 after a public campaign for a memorial to those who died in both world wars, at which time West House was also acquired, and the park opened as Pinner Memorial Park in 1950. Surviving elements of the earlier landscape remain including belts of Corsican pine, one or two earlier oaks, the walled garden and the ornamental lake now with a fountain installed in 1985. A small dog cemetery is located near the entrance at the north west of the park, which dates from the C19th. West House was restored in 2010 and in 2016 the Heath Robinson Museum opened built onto the house, celebrating the work of one of Pinner's famous residents.

Pinner New Cemetery was dedicated on 13 May 1933, and was laid out to designs by Borough Architect, S W Richardson. Its entrance is elegantly set back from the road and has stone gate piers, wrought iron gates with lanterns, and a gothic lodge. The axial drive to the chapel is lined with horse chestnut trees and, unusually, deciduous planting strongly predominates in the cemetery. There are a small number of oak trees that pre-date the cemetery and much planting of birch, cypress, sycamore, cherry and hawthorn. Among the monuments there is a notable red granite armchair grave of Susan Dunford, who 'left her chair vacant' in 1954.

The site is a large area of farmland that comprises most of the original Pinner Park, which was first referred to in 1273. Part of the Manor of Harrow, it was owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and used as a deer park. It was converted to farmland in the C16th. By early C20th parts were sold off, some for sports grounds but plans to develop the rest for housing was opposed and it was sold to Pinner Parish Council and Middlesex County Council for preservation as open space.

Pinner Recreation Ground was laid out by the early 1930s on former agricultural land to the south of the railway line constructed by the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1885, later becoming the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway. By the 1960s the recreation ground had a shelter in the south corner, and toilets and a drinking fountain in the north-east by the entrance on West End Lane.