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Harefield

Harefield is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charing Cross near Greater London's boundary with Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the north.

Harefield
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The place

Harefield is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charing Cross near Greater London's boundary with Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the north. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,399.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harefield

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Denham Country Park

    Denham Country Park is a 69-acre public park and Local Nature Reserve in Buckinghamshire and the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is part of the 42 square mile Colne Valley Regional Park, and the Colne Valley Park Visitor Centre and cafe are located in Denham Country Park.

    3.4 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    London School of Theology

    The London School of Theology, formerly London Bible College, is a British interdenominational evangelical theological college based in Northwood within the London Borough of Hillingdon.

    3.4 km · interdenominational evangelical theological college in Hillingdon, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Moor Park

    Moor Park is a Neo-Palladian mansion set within several hundred acres of parkland to the south-east of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is called Moor Park Mansion because it is in the old park of the Manor of the More, a 16th-century palace.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Batchworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Colne Valley Viaduct

    The Colne Valley Viaduct is a railway bridge that will carry High Speed 2 over the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Grand Union Canal. It runs between Harefield in Hillingdon, Greater London and Denham in Buckinghamshire.

    1.5 km · railway viaduct in Harefield, London Borough of Hillingdon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Denham Place

    Denham Place is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house in Denham, Buckinghamshire. Surrounded by a Grade II listed 18th-century landscaped park, the estate borders the Buckinghamshire Golf Club.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in South Bucks, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ruislip Lido

    Ruislip Lido is a reservoir and artificial beach in Ruislip, within the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, situated between Ruislip Common, Ruislip Woods, and Poor's Field. Originally created as a feeder basin for the Grand Junction Canal in 1811, the reservoir was reopened in 1933 as a lido, with facilities for swimming and boating.

    3.5 km · reservoir and artificial beach in London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old Park Wood

    Old Park Wood is a 16.7-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The southeast part is an 8-hectare nature reserve owned and managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.

    1.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in London Borough of Hillingdon, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rickmansworth Aquadrome

    Rickmansworth Aquadrome is a 41-hectare public park and Local Nature Reserve in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Three Rivers District Council.

    3.3 km · park and nature reserve in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stocker's Lake

    Stocker's Lake is an old flooded gravel pit of approx 90 acres at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, within the Colne Valley Regional Park which is designated as a Local Nature Reserve. The lake is owned by Affinity Water and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust assisted by the Friends of Stocker's Lake.

    3 km · artificial lake in Hertfordshire/Greater London, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Harefield

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 15 km · London Luton (LTN), 31 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 54 km
Stations
Northwood tube station, 3.8 km · Denham Aerodrome, 2.9 km · Denham Golf Club railway station, 3.7 km · Denham, 3 km
  • London → Harefield
    27 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3–4
  • London, Essex → Harefield
    27 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £3–4
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Harefield
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harefield

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Harefield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    117 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    414 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    538 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    574 km

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Around it

Next door to Harefield

Harefield is 13 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.