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London Borough of Harrow

The London Borough of Harrow is a borough in west and north-west London, England; it forms part of Outer London.

London Borough of Harrow
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The place

The London Borough of Harrow is a borough in west and north-west London, England; it forms part of Outer London. It borders four other London boroughs – Barnet to the east of ancient Watling Street, Brent to the southeast, Ealing to the south and Hillingdon to the west and the Hertfordshire districts of Three Rivers and Hertsmere to the north. The local authority is Harrow London Borough Council. The London borough was formed in 1965, based on boundaries that had been established in 1934. The borough is made up of three towns: Harrow, Pinner and Stanmore, but also includes western parts of Edgware and Sudbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around London Borough of Harrow

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.

  1. 01
    Wembley 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.

    3.9 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Live 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.

    3.9 km · Global concert raised massive funds for famine and had Queen's Iconic performance · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wembley 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.

    3.6 km · indoor arena adjacent to Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The 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.

    3.9 km · 1992 benefit concert · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Concert 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.

    3.9 km · benefit concert in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Watkin'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.

    3.9 km · partially completed iron lattice tower in London, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nelson 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.

    3.9 km · 1988 popular-music concert in London · 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.

Go there

Getting to London Borough of Harrow

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 14 km · London Luton (LTN), 34 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 48 km
Stations
Harrow & Wealdstone station, 2.9 km · Wembley Central station, 3 km · Wembley Park tube station, 3.7 km · Kenton railway station, 2 km · Rayners Lane tube station, 2.8 km
  • London → London Borough of Harrow
    18 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £2–3
  • London, Essex → London Borough of Harrow
    18 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £2–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → London Borough of Harrow
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for London Borough of Harrow

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 London Borough of Harrow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    119 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    407 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    583 km

If you know how people move in London Borough of Harrow – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to London Borough of Harrow

London Borough of Harrow is 3 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Brentborough in the London Region in England3.7 km
  • Wembleyarea in the London Borough of Brent2.3 km
  • Harrowlarge suburban town in Greater London, England2.1 km
  • Northoltarea in the London Borough of Ealing, England, UK3.4 km
  • Alpertonarea in the London Borough of Brent3.7 km
  • Wealdstonearea of the London Borough of Harrow3 km