Description
Yeading Walk is a linear park that follows part of the Yeading Brook between Rayners Lane in the east and Northumberland Road where the riverside has a formal strip of park with grass, exotic trees and shrubs, several bridges, seating and a linear metalled path. The Yeading Brook then extends south through the borough to Roxbourne Park and the boundary with Hillingdon at Streamside Reservation.
Practical Information
| Previously known as | Yeading Brook Open Space |
|---|---|
| Site location | Rayners Lane/Suffolk Road/Northumberland Road |
| Postcode | HA2 |
| What3Words | ///crust.hulk.useful |
| Type of Site | Public Open Land |
| Borough | Harrow |
| Open to Public | Yes |
| Opening Times | unrestricted |
| Public Transport | Tube: Rayners Lane (Metropolitan, Piccadilly), North Harrow (Metropolitan). Bus: H10, H11 |
| Research Updated | 1 January 2012 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
The Yeading Brook flowed through a rural landscape until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway and housing development transformed the area from the 1920s. The Metropolitan Railway Company had opened its first underground line in 1863 between Bayswater and Holborn, which was extended north-west from Baker Street from the late 1860s, reaching Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1880, Pinner in 1885 and later Chesham and beyond in order to link up with the railway network in the Midlands. By the 1930s houses along Northumberland Road and Suffolk Road were built south of the railway line, with a lozenge of open space remaining adjacent to the Yeading Brook. By 1960 Yeading Walk's path system and planting is shown on the OS Map. Flanking both sides of Rayners Lane, Harrow Garden Village (q.v.) 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.
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ132886 |
|---|---|
| Size in hectares | 2.83 |
| Site Ownership | LB Harrow |
| Site Management | Environmental Services, Parks Services |
| 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 | No |
| Nature Conservation Area | Yes - Borough Importance II |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
| Other LA Designation | Green Chain |
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Nearby parks and gardens
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.
Pinner Village Gardens were laid out at the same time as the development of the 1920s suburb. The park incorporates some notable earlier oak trees and is laid out with winding paths across the lawns, with good perimeter planting of shrubs and specimen trees, floral displays in raised beds and a rose garden. Narrow rig ridge and furrow in the south part of the park is a reminder of the previous use of the land for farming from medieval times, and is the nearest surviving to central London.
Capel Gardens and Pinner Court are a 1930s development of symmetrically-arranged colonial-style luxury flats set back from the main road, which were provided with landscaped gardens. To the front are two areas of public gardens, Boulevard Gardens, on either side of the entrance to Pinner New Cemetery. Steps lead up from the public gardens into the private courtyard gardens behind.