Headstone

Headstone
Middlesex
Headstone Manor Recreation Ground in autumn
Location
Grid reference:	TQ138907
Location:	51°36’5"N, 0°21’48"W
Data
Population:	21,228  (2011)
Post town:	Harrow
Postcode:	HA2, HA3
Dialling code:	020
Local Government
Council:	Harrow

Headstone is a sub-urbansised, residential vilage in the north of Middlesex, immediately north of North Harrow. A green buffer exists between Headstone and North Harrow that consists of a moated manor site (Headstone Manor) and football and rugby pitches, making the area mostly separate from North Harrow. However, there are some points of flux and overlap. To the west the area abuts the large and predominantly agricultural pasture of Pinner Park.

History

Courtenay Avenue

Headstone Manor is fourteenth century with many later additions and renovations: it is a significant place of interest in its own right. The manor had an unrivalled status, see manorialism until after the Reformation and formation of the British Empire and to an extent, usually for such a site, relatively close to London, even until the Enlightenment and the folowing Industrial Revolution. This has led to the barns having remained largely intact to the present.

The origin of the name 'Headstone' may be related to that of Wealdstone, which is a neighbouring area situated directly north of Harrow.

About the village

St George's Church, Headstone

Harrow Weald Common adjoins the northern border of the area, open for walking and mountain biking equally, this is on the northern boundary of Harrow Weald (marked by Uxbridge Road). On this common which rises steeply in the north to climb the hill of Weald Wood, towards the southwestern, Headstone, side is the Bannister Sports Centre, an athletics track and training ground.

Pinner Park features a miniature railway and a cricket ground with pavilion.

Parish church

• Church of England: St George's, built by John Samuel Alder and consecrated in 1911.