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Harrow, Middlesex : ウィキペディア英語版 | Harrow, London
Harrow is a large suburban town in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, England. It is centred northwest of Charing Cross. Harrow-on-the-Hill includes the conservation area with a high proportion of listed buildings with a residential and institutional array of georgian architecture and a few 17th century examples. Harrow gives its initial letters to a wider postcode area. The administrative offices of the borough are in the town which currently is made up of the Greenhill, Headstone South and West Harrow electoral wards; these had a population of 33,928 in the 2011 census. Harrow was a municipal borough of Middlesex before its inclusion in Greater London in 1965. Harrow is home to a large University of Westminster campus and its oldest secondary schools are Harrow School and Harrow High School. ==Etymology== Harrow's name comes from Old English ''hearg'' = "(heathen) temple", which was probably on the hill of Harrow, where St. Mary's Church stands today.〔Room, Adrian: “Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles”, Bloomsbury, 1988. ISBN 0-7475-0170-X〕 The name has been studied in detail by Briggs.〔Briggs, Keith "Harrow", Journal of the English Place-name Society, volume 42 (2010), 43-64〕
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