Pinner Village Gardens

Pinner Village Gardens are owned via the London Borough of Harrow, located inside the borough’s Pinner South Ward on the outskirts of Pinner metropolis centre, and feature entrances from Rayners Lane, Compton Rise, Whittington Way and Hereford Gardens. They are a 10-minute stroll from Pinner tube station on the Metropolitan Line, and provide 6.58 hectares for informal exercise. The Gardens had been laid out on the same time because the improvement of the suburb inside the 1920s. It is precise in that it carries a medieval slim rig ridge and furrow field within the south a part of the park, a characteristic normally found on poorly tired soil where ploughing have been carried out for a exceptionally lengthy period.

Harrow Borough Council inside the mid-80s meant to level this area to make it simpler for them to reduce the grass, but an archaeological survey become completed to decide whether or not those features surely represented ridge and furrow or whether they were later drainage functions. No discipline drains have been located and all of the evidence pointed to the earthworks being ridge and furrow of the type typically called slim rig. It is the nearest surviving ridge and furrow to critical London and the pics beneath show that the ridges can still be seen to this present day.