Grims Dyke Golf Club

Grims Dyke Golf Club takes its name from the ancient earthwork that runs through this part of north-west London, a boundary ditch thought to date from the Anglo-Saxon period or earlier, traces of which survive across Harrow Weald and the land around Pinner. The club is based in Pinner, a settlement whose old centre still stands around the medieval church of St John the Baptist and a high street that kept much of its village character even as the wider area was absorbed into Metropolitan London in the early twentieth century, after the Metropolitan Railway reached the district. Pinner falls within the London Borough of Harrow, which occupies gently rising ground between the Colne and Brent river valleys, and pockets of woodland and common land have survived there among the suburban streets built from the 1930s onward. A short distance from the club stands Grim's Dyke House, once the home of the dramatist and lyricist W. S. Gilbert and now run as a hotel, among the more notable historic buildings in the immediate area. The postcode HA6 sits toward the north-western edge of this borough, close to the boundary with Hertfordshire and the open country beyond the city's edge.