Town in Greater London, England

Harrow

Harrow is a town in Greater London, England, and serves as the principal settlement of the London Borough of Harrow.

Every way there

London → Harrow
16 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £2–2.5
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London, Essex → Harrow
16 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £2–2.5
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Harrow
147 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–21
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Harrow, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Harrow has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LHR), 15 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesPutney Pier, 16 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.584°, -0.346°

The eastern part of the town, by Northwick Park Hospital, crosses the London Borough of Brent border. Harrow lies about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north-west of Charing Cross and 5.4 miles (8.7 km) south of Watford. In 2022, the town and localities had an estimated population of 117,651, whereas the wider borough had a population of 261,185.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.