Harrow School Golf Club

Harrow School Golf Club takes its name from the school on the hill above it, one of England's older independent boarding schools, founded under a royal charter granted in 1572. Harrow-on-the-Hill itself rises above the Middlesex plain in outer northwest London, a ridge that has long given the settlement its distinct, elevated character above the surrounding suburbs of Wembley, Pinner and Harrow itself. The hill has been a landmark for travellers approaching London from the northwest for centuries, and the parish church spire on its summit remains visible for miles across the flatter ground below. The wider area sits within what was historically Middlesex, now absorbed into Greater London, with Watford and the Hertfordshire border a short distance to the north. Development around the school grew up gradually from the sixteenth century onward, and the hilltop location still separates the older core of Harrow from the more recent housing that spread across the lower ground during the twentieth century. Golfers connected with the school play in this setting, on a hill that has shaped the look of the settlement around it for more than four hundred years.