Harrow on the Hill
Harrow on the Hill or Harrow-on-the-Hill is an area and historic village in the London Borough of Harrow in north-west London, England.
Harrow on the Hill or Harrow-on-the-Hill is an area and historic village in the London Borough of Harrow in north-west London, England. The name refers to Harrow Hill, 408 feet (124 m), and is located some half a mile south of the modern town of Harrow. The village dates back to early medieval times, built around the 11th-century St Mary's Church, and is the location of three schools, namely, Harrow, St Dominic's and John Lyon.
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Worth seeing in and around Harrow on the Hill
7 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.
- 01Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium, branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium in Wembley, London, England. It opened in 2007 on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which had stood from 1923 until 2000.
3.8 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia - 02Live Aid
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fund-raising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
3.8 km · Global concert raised massive funds for famine and had Queen's Iconic performance · Wikipedia - 03Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena is an indoor arena next to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, Greater London, England. The 12,500-seat facility is Greater London's second-largest indoor arena after the O2 Arena, and the ninth-largest in the United Kingdom.
3.5 km · indoor arena adjacent to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London · Wikipedia - 04The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, also known as A Concert for Life, was a benefit concert by British rock band Queen and a number of supporting artists. It took place on 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
3.8 km · 1992 benefit concert · Wikipedia - 05Concert for Diana
Concert for Diana was a benefit concert held at the then newly built Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday. 31 August that year brought the 10th anniversary of her death.
3.8 km · benefit concert in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales · Wikipedia - 06Watkin's Tower
Watkin's Tower was a partially completed iron lattice tower in Wembley Park, Middlesex, England. Its construction was an ambitious project to create a 358-metre -high visitor attraction in Wembley Park to the north of the city, led by the railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin.
3.8 km · partially completed iron lattice tower in London, England · Wikipedia - 07Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a popular-music concert staged on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. Marking the forthcoming 70th birthday of the imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, the concert was also referred to as Freedomfest, Free Nelson Mandela Concert and Mandela Day.
3.8 km · 1988 popular-music concert in London · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harrow on the Hill
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Luton (LTN), 34 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 47 km
- Stations
- Wembley Central station, 2.9 km · Harrow & Wealdstone station, 3 km · Wembley Park tube station, 3.7 km · Rayners Lane tube station, 2.9 km · Alperton tube station, 3.6 km
- London → Harrow on the Hill16 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £2–2.5
- London, Essex → Harrow on the Hill16 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £2–2.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Harrow on the Hill147 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Harrow on the Hill
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 Harrow on the Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.
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Next door to Harrow on the Hill
Harrow on the Hill is 3 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- London Borough of Brentborough in the London Region in England3.6 km
- London Borough of Harrowborough in the London Region in England2.5 km
- Wembleyarea in the London Borough of Brent2.2 km
- Harrowlarge suburban town in Greater London, England2.2 km
- Northoltarea in the London Borough of Ealing, England, UK3.3 km
- Alpertonarea in the London Borough of Brent3.6 km