West Harrow Recreation Ground
Introduction
The photograph on this page of West Harrow Recreation Ground by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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West Harrow Recreation Ground
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 9 Apr 2008
Old Ordnance Survey maps available online show this whole area as open fields right up to the Edition of 1920. The Metropolitan Railway was the first significant development across the agricultural land and the Recreation Ground first appears, in a currently available online map, in the Edition of 1935. The horse chestnut trees on the right are bursting into leaf.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.576647
Longitude
-0.356281