Editing London Borough of Harrow (section)

==History==
The area of the modern borough broadly corresponds to the three [[ancient parish]]es of [[Harrow on the Hill]], [[Great Stanmore]] and [[Little Stanmore]] (also known as Whitchurch), all of which were historically in the county of [[Middlesex]]. Harrow on the Hill was the largest of the three parishes. [[Pinner]] was a [[chapelry]] of Harrow on the Hill until 1766 when it was made a separate parish.<ref>{{cite book |title=Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society: Volume 3 |date=1870 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5joQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181 |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>

The central part of the parish of Harrow on the Hill was made a [[Local Board of Health|local board district]] in 1850, with an elected board overseeing public health and responsible for the provision of infrastructure. The local board district covered the original hilltop village and the adjoining hamlets of [[Roxeth]], [[Sudbury, London|Sudbury]] and [[Greenhill, Harrow|Greenhill]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawes |first1=Edward |title=The Act for promoting the Public Health, with notes |date=1851 |publisher=Shaw and Sons |location=London |pages=264–265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRJXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA264 |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref> Greenhill subsequently developed into the modern town centre of [[Harrow, London|Harrow]] following the opening of [[Harrow-on-the-Hill station]] there in 1880.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |last2=Weinreb |first2=Ben |last3=Keay |first3=John |last4=Keay |first4=Julia |title=The London Encyclopaedia |date=2011 |page=352 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xa0D0PqiwfEC&pg=PA352 |access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref>

Such districts were reconstituted as [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban districts]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], which also said that parishes could no longer straddle district boundaries.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1894|year=1894|chapter=73|access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref> The parts of the old parish of Harrow on the Hill outside the urban district were therefore split into three new parishes called [[Harrow Weald]], [[Wealdstone]] and [[Wembley]] (the latter now part of the [[London Borough of Brent]]). Wealdstone and Wembley were both made into urban districts at the same time.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1895 |page=269 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFIwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA269 |access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref><ref>Youngs, Frederic A Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. {{ISBN|0-901050-67-9}}</ref>

[[File:Harrow1961.svg|thumb|left|Harrow within Middlesex in 1961]]
The urban district was significantly enlarged by the [[Local Government Act 1929|Middlesex Review Order 1934]] to take in the neighbouring urban district of Wealdstone and the parishes of Harrow Weald, Pinner, Great Stanmore and Little Stanmore. The urban district was renamed from 'Harrow on the Hill' to just 'Harrow' as part of the 1934 expansion. Harrow Urban District was incorporated as a [[municipal borough]] on 4 May 1954.<ref>{{cite web |title=Harrow Urban District / Municipal Borough |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10001833 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref> At the 1961 census, the borough had a population of 209,080, making it the most populous local government district in the [[administrative county]] of Middlesex.<ref>{{cite web |title=1961 Census of England and Wales, County Report |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table/EW1961COU_M3?u_id=10061441&show=DB&min_c=1&max_c=12 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref>

In 1965 the borough was transferred from Middlesex to [[Greater London]] under the [[London Government Act 1963]]. It kept the same boundaries, but was renamed the London Borough of Harrow, becoming one of the 32 London Boroughs. It was the only London borough<!-- Note the City of London is not a London borough --> which comprised a single pre-1965 district with no changes to its boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |title=The naming of the London Boroughs: Part One |url=https://lccmunicipal.com/2018/06/29/the-naming-of-the-london-boroughs-part-one/ |website=LCC Municipal |access-date=20 August 2023 |language=en |date=29 June 2018}}</ref> There has since been an adjustment to the borough's northern boundary, where the village of [[Elstree]] straddled Harrow and [[Hertfordshire]]; on 1 April 1993 Elstree was placed entirely in Hertfordshire (and its district of [[Hertsmere]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/elstree%20and%20potters%20bar.html|title=Elstree and Potters Bar|publisher=UK Births, Marriages and Deaths|access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>