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Mercer Place, PINNER, HA5 3UH

This was called Mill Farm Close a year ago, but once the road was extended to a new housing estate it changed its name.

Looking from the only access road into a small maze of housing.

Access from James Bedford Close.

A rail replacement service makes its way along this straight stretch of the A404.

Passing in front of the Pinner Cricket Club pavilion.

A short traditional brick terrace located next to Oakcroft Close. The bus stop outside is for Crossway.

Interesting style of detached houses beside Wynlie Gardens, almost like bungalows with additional roof space. There are 5 in total.

The A404 seen at Crossway, looking towards Northwood Hills Circus. A bus for Harrow on the H11 route pulls in to drop off a passenger. The brick building behind the trees is the church of St. Edmund the King. It is here, at the kink in the road, that we move from the Borough of Harrow into the Borough of Hillingdon and the road changes its name to Pinner Road.

Pinner is often seen as the epitome of Metroland but there was an original village there long before all the later 1930s housing came in - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4928777 As would be expected John Betjeman, the main authority on Metroland, included Pinner in one of his poems - "The Metropolitan Railway - Baker Street buffet" has the verse: "Early electric! Sit you down and see 'Mid this fine woodwork and a smell of dinner, A stained-glass windmill and a pot of tea, The sepia view of leafy lanes in PINNER Then visualize, far down the shining lines, Your parents' homestead set in murmuring pines." Montesole Playing Fields at Pinner Green include facilities to play tennis, football and basketball. Pinner Cricket Club play their games at Montesole Playing Fields and have been established since 1835. Part of the ancient Grim's Ditch can be found on the far side - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim%27s_Ditch for more information about Grim's Ditch.