Harrow Park, (also known as Flambards), Harrow, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest:

A small 18th century landscape park on which Lancelot Brown worked between 1768 and 1771.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Harrow Park is situated in the 'village' of Harrow on the Hill which runs roughly north/south along a spine of high ground in the suburbs of west London. Wembley lies about 3 kilometres to the south-east, Kenton about 2 kilometres to the north-east, and Pinner a similar distance to the north-west.

The site occupies about 15 hectares and is bounded to the west by houses in the High Street and to the south and south-west by the gardens of houses in Harrow Park, a small road built, in part, along the line of the old perimeter drive; remains of the 18th century brick boundary wall of the park survive to the south-west of the road. Buildings and playing fields of Harrow School provide the boundary to the north and east and part of the golf course, backed by open fields, the boundary to the south-east. The site falls steeply from the west with the lake lying in the lowest part near to the eastern boundary.

REFERENCES used by English Heritage:

D Lyson, The Environs of London ... Middlesex 2, (1810), p 374

W Keane, The Beauties of Middlesex (1850), pp 211-212

W W Druett, Harrow through the Ages (1956)

Victoria History of the County of Middlesex 4, (1971), pp 209-210, 229-230

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), p 225

Flambards, (Debois Landscape Survey Group 1975) [Report commissioned by EH as part of a survey of parks on the outskirts of London.]

A W Ball, Paintings, Prints and Drawings of Harrow on the Hill, 1562-1899 (1980)

B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 3 North-West (1991), p 269

Maps

J Rocque, London and the Country Ten miles round, 1746

Messeder, Plan of the Roads, Lanes, Commons, Greens and Waste of the Manor and Parish of Harrow on the Hill in the county of Middlesex, 1759 (Greater London Record Office)

Enclosure Award for Harrow, 1803 (Harrow Record Office)

Sale Plan, c 1828 (Harrow Record Office) [in Debois 1975]

Sale Plan, post 1829 (Harrow Record Office) [in Debois 1975]

Parochial Rate Assessment map, 1852 (in Debois 1975)

OS 1st edition 1" map published 1822

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1864

2nd edition published 1897

Description written: February 1999

Edited: November 2001