Description
Eastcote Lane Cemetery was established by Roxeth Burial Board and opened in 1922. It later transferred to Harrow UDC when the Burial Board disbanded. Now surrounded by suburban housing, the small cemetery has modest headstones set among the grass with trees predominantly along the Eastcote Lane boundary. At the entrance are rustic wooden gates and a picturesque red brick lodge with small turret. Around the lodge a number of palm trees and conifers have been planted. A central tarmac path runs from the entrance, crossed partway along its length by another path, the circular junction surrounded by 4 trees.
Practical Information
| Site location | Eastcote Lane, South Harrow |
|---|---|
| Postcode | HA2 8RN |
| What3Words | ///feast.local.soap |
| Type of Site | Cemetery |
| Borough | Harrow |
| Open to Public | Yes |
| Opening Times | Nov/Dec: 9am - 4.30pm; Jan-Mar/Oct: 9am - 5.30pm; April/Sept: 9am - 7pm; May-August: 9am - 8pm. |
| Public Transport | Tube: South Harrow (Piccadilly). Rail: Northolt Park. Bus: 114, H10 |
| Research Updated | 1 December 2011 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
Beyond the housing to the east side of the cemetery is the massive, rather brutal but quite splendid pale grey bulk of the church of St Paul's in Corbins Lane is visible, built 1937-8 by N F Cachemaille-Day and described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of his most daring modernist buildings'.
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ136863 |
|---|---|
| Site Ownership | LB Harrow |
| Site Management | Environmental Services, Cemetery Office |
| Dates | 1922 |
| On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens | No |
| Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 | No |
| Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 | No |
| Local Authority | Harrow |
| In Conservation Area | No |
| Tree Preservation Order | Not known |
| Nature Conservation Area | No |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
| Other LA Designation | Open Space |
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Nearby parks and gardens
Alexandra Park was opened as a public park in 1928, laid out on land conveyed to the Harrow-on-the-Hill UDC by executors of Cllr A B Champniss. It was formerly part of the Paddocks Pleasure Grounds recreated in 1912 from Grove Farm. The park has a simple layout of curving paths, with some shrubbery planting along Alexandra Avenue, and a recent Millennium Garden. Most of the trees are mid-C20th and later, although a group of hollies may previously have backed a building.
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.