Evening Walk - Some heights in Northwest London: Harrow-on-the-Hill

Length: 5.0 km (3.1 mi) 

Ascent: 160m 

Net Walking Time: 1 ½ hour

 

Meet at Northwick Park (Metropolitan Line, Zone 4) at 18.40. (i.e. 18.17 or 18.22 Metropolitan Line from Baker Street). 

Alternatively, start from South Kenton (Zone 4) at the same time, the routes converge after a few minutes. For that, either take the 18.14 Watford Junction train from Euston (calling, amongst others, at South Hampstead, Queens Park, Kensal Green, Willesden Junction, Wembley Central), arriving South Kenton at 18.40, or the Bakerloo Line (takes 35 minutes from Oxford Circus, for example).

Return trains from Harrow (Zone 5): frequent and fast trains and tubes (Chiltern Trains services to Marylebone in about 15 minutes; Met Line to Baker Street in about 17 minutes, then on to Aldgate).

This is a short excursion in Northwest London through a park and then the playing fields of Harrow School, one of the country's leading ‘public’ (i.e.: fee-paying independent) schools, up onto the hill that is dominated by the school buildings, its chapel and Harrow’s church. You walk down from the hill through the hanging cemetery and skirt around the hill to re-ascend through residential streets to the High Street, lined by historic school buildings and tea options. The walk finishes with a descent along a wood and across a grassy open space down to ‘modern’ Harrow and its busy station.

Tea: plenty of options en-route in Harrow (we often stop at The Castle pub, in a Grade II-listed building, featured in the Good Beer Guide 2025 and ***-rated on the CAMRA Register for historic interiors) plus The Indian Gastro Kitchen for dinner near the station.

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