12 Facts About Pinner

Pinner is a suburb in the London borough of Harrow, Greater London, England, 12 miles northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, in the historic county of Middlesex.

Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora, although the already archaic -ora suggests its origins lie no later than circa 900.

Pinner contains a large number of homes built in the 1930s Art Deco style, the most grand of which is the Grade II listed Elm Park Court at the junction of West End Lane and Elm Park Road.

Pinner is the site of one of the UK's oldest chartered fairs, held annually since 1336.

Pinner is within the bounds of the historic county of Middlesex; it was located at the western end of the hundred of Gore, before it was in the Hendon Rural District.

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Pinner is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2008 by Navin Shah .

Since the 2010 general election, Pinner has been part of the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner parliamentary constituency, currently served by David Simmonds.

Pinner is both a religiously and culturally mixed area, with the ethnic minority population having grown significantly since the 1970s.

Pinner has the lowest crime rate in the whole of London, with several independent schools and single-sex schools with a prestigious reputation, making it a popular area for affluent families.

Pinner holds a number of Fairs and Fetes that are renowned in North West London for bringing its diverse and cosmopolitan community together.

Pinner has a rugby union team, Pinner and Grammarians RFC, a member club of the Rugby Football Union.

Pinner learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance.