Pinner

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Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora,{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Patricia |title=A History of Pinner |date=2004 |publisher=Phillimore |location=Chichester, West Sussex |isbn=978-1860772870}}{{rp|11}} although the already archaic -ora (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than circa 900.{{rp|1}} The name Pinn is shared with the River Pinn, which runs through the middle of Pinner. Another suggestion of the name is that it means 'hill-slope shaped like a pin'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Pinner|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}

The oldest part of the town lies around the fourteenth-century parish church of St. John the Baptist, at the junction of the present day Grange Gardens, High Street and Church Lane. The church was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill, and was first mentioned in 1234. It was rebuilt in the early fourteenth-century, and rededicated in 1321. The parish became independent of St Mary's in 1766, when the first perpetual curate was appointed; not until the Wilberforce Act{{which|date=April 2025}} of 1868 did it appoint its first vicar, one William Hind.{{rp|34}} The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth century.{{rp|18}}

The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates, including the architecturally significant Pinnerwood estate conservation area – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core.{{rp|176–184}} It was largely from this time onwards that the area (including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner) assumed much of its present-day suburban character. The area is now contiguous with neighbouring suburban districts including Rayners Lane and Eastcote.

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.{{rp|25}} Pinner is also the site of one of the UK's oldest chartered fairs, called Pinner Fair, which has been held annually since 1336.{{Cite book |last=Gorman |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5ZtApAOJMoC&dq=pinner+chartered+fair&pg=PA128 |title=Broken Pieces: A Library Life, 1941-1978 |date=2011-06-08 |publisher=American Library Association |isbn=978-0-8389-1104-4 |language=en}}

Pinner lay within 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.{{cite web |title=The hundred of Gore |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp149-150 |website=British History Online |access-date=7 December 2022}} In 1965 it became a part of the London Borough of Harrow in the newly formed ceremonial county of Greater London.{{cite act| url = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/654/made| title = The London Government Order 1965| date=1965 | legislature = Parliament of the United Kingdom | type= Statutory Instrument}}

Pinner's St John the Baptist parish church was consecrated in 1321, but built on the site of an earlier Christian place of worship. The west tower and south porch date from the 15th century.{{cite book|author1=Ben Weinreb|author2=Christopher Hibbert|title=The London Encyclopaedia|edition=reprint|year=1992|page=745|publisher=Macmillan}}

Harrow Council has been governed by the Conservative Party since 2022. Pinner has two wards, Pinner and Pinner South, each represented by three Conservative councillors.

Pinner is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2024 by Krupesh Hirani (Labour). Since the 2010 general election, Pinner has been part of the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner parliamentary constituency, currently served by David Simmonds.[http://www.statistics.gov.uk%2Fpbc%2Freview_areas%2FNorth_London_Boroughs%2Fdownloads%2FNorth_London_NR_FR.doc www.statistics.gov.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220175602/http://acn.com.ve/ |date=20 February 2017 }}. Retrieved 14 August 2008.

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Pinner includes Pinner Village at its centre, along with the localities of Pinner Green and Pinnerwood Park Conservation Area{{Cite web|url=https://www2.harrow.gov.uk/documents/s31471/Draft%20CA%20for_PWP_PF_PH_App%203.pdf|title=Harrow – Pinnerwood Park Estate Conservation Area Appraisal 29 October 2008|website=Harrow Council|access-date=19 December 2019|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308142140/https://www2.harrow.gov.uk/documents/s31471/Draft%20CA%20for_PWP_PF_PH_App%203.pdf|url-status=dead}} to the north. To the north east is the larger area of Hatch End, served by Hatch End railway station (originally opened as Pinner).

The River Pinn flows through Pinner, flowing in a diagonal direction. Large parks and open spaces are Pinner Memorial Park, Pinner Village Gardens, Roxbourne Gardens, Pinner Wood (woodlands) and Pinner Park (farmland).

Pinner Memorial Park has a large house in it which includes a museum to Illustrator Heath Robinson as well as a cafe which hosts regular music events throughout the summer; while Roxbourne Gardens also hosts a pop-up cafe and music venue on Sundays year-round.

Much of Pinner has an elevation of about {{convert|45|m|ft|order=flip}} to {{convert|60|m|ft|order=flip}}. Nower Hill rises to a peak of about {{convert|80|m|ft|order=flip}} above sea level while Pinner Park peaks at {{convert|62|m|ft|order=flip}}. The semi-rural Pinnerwood area is steep, and rises to a peak of over {{convert|120|m|ft|order=flip}} around Pinner Hill Golf Course.

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|North = Oxhey

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|East = Headstone

|Southwest = Eastcote

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Pinner is both a religiously and culturally mixed area, with the ethnic minority population having grown significantly since the 1970s.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/08/black-flight-england-suburbs-ethnic-minorities-multiculturalism|first=Hugh|last=Muir|title=Black flight: how England's suburbs are changing colour|work=The Guardian|date=8 July 2016|access-date=5 December 2016}} Pinner ward nonetheless had the highest concentration of people describing themselves as white in the London Borough of Harrow, at 72 per cent of the population in 2011. In 2013 the Pinner South ward had the next highest proportion of white people in the borough at 69.4 per cent.{{cite web|url=http://www.harrow.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1067/2011_census_briefing_note_7|title=A look at Harrow's wards: 2011 Census second release|publisher=Harrow Council|date=February 2013|access-date=5 December 2016}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Various churches, a synagogue and others serve the religious needs of the community.

Pinner also has several independent schools and single-sex schools.{{cite web |url=http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/regions/pinner/ |title=Pinner Guide |work=AllInLondon.co.uk |access-date=14 March 2012}} In the 2014/15 period, the Pinner South ward had a crime rate of 24.5, which was the lowest out of all 628 wards of Greater London.{{Cite web|url=https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ward-profiles-and-atlas|title=Ward Profiles and Atlas – London Datastore}} The ward also has (data from 2009 to 2013) the second highest female life expectancy in the capital: 91.7 years, only bettered by Holland ward in Kensington and Chelsea.

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

• Pinner Fair has been held annually since 1336, when it was granted by Royal Charter by King Edward III. The fair still draws thousand of people and families from Pinner and the surrounding areas in North West London.{{Cite web|title=Thousands enjoy Pinner fair|url=https://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/10450256.thousands-enjoy-pinner-fair/|access-date=26 October 2020|website=Harrow Times|date=29 May 2013 |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Pathé|first=British|title=Annual Fair At Pinner|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVAALWZVRNWIEGNKTEKPBOUZUGD5-ANNUAL-FAIR-AT-PINNER/query/Pinner|access-date=26 October 2020|website=www.britishpathe.com|language=en-GB}} The Pinner Fair was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the fair's charter was preserved.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-07 |title=FUN FAIR: Popular fair set to return to Pinner after two-year hiatus |url=https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/fun-fair-popular-fair-set-to-return-to-pinner-after-two-year-hiatus/ |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=My Local News}} To keep the annual tradition going, a small selection of non-operational rides were put up in 2020, and the Vicar came out to bless the showmen.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-28 |title=Pinner Fair 2020 – the final word. |url=https://www.pinnerassociation.co.uk/pinner-fair-2020-the-final-word/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=The Pinner Association |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2020-05-22 |title=The Fair Must Go On! |url=https://www.pinnerassociation.co.uk/the-fair-must-go-on/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=The Pinner Association |language=en-GB}}
• Pinner Donkey Derby and Fete, held between 1925 and 1939 was a Charity event organised by Rev. John Caulfield, parish priest of St. Luke's, Pinner and Steve Donoghue, a leading flat-race jockey. Huge crowds would turn up to see the Derby, as it was also a chance to see celebrities and sporting personalities of the era.{{Cite web|title=Obituary – from the Catholic Herald Archive|url=http://archive-uat.catholicherald.co.uk/article/13th-june-1941/7/obituary|access-date=26 October 2020|website=archive-uat.catholicherald.co.uk|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026132041/http://archive-uat.catholicherald.co.uk/article/13th-june-1941/7/obituary|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Pathé|first=British|title=Donkey Derby And Fete At Pinner|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/donkey-derby-and-fete-at-pinner/query/Pinner|access-date=26 October 2020|website=www.britishpathe.com|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|last=Pathé|first=British|title=The Donkey Derby|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-donkey-derby/query/Pinner|access-date=26 October 2020|website=www.britishpathe.com|language=en-GB}}
• St. George's Day annual celebrations are organised by the Rotary Club of Pinner and features the "Ye Olde Wheelbarrow Race".{{Cite web|title=Pinner St George's Day celebration|url=http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=733125&ClubID=827|access-date=26 October 2020|website=Pinner|date = 22 November 2018|language=en}}

Pinner has a rugby union team, Pinner and Grammarians RFC, a member club of the Rugby Football Union. It is the most junior team to have supplied a President to the RFU.{{Cite web|title=Rugby Football History|url=http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/past_presidents.html|website=www.rugbyfootballhistory.com}} Pinner also has a cricket team, Pinner Cricket Club,{{Cite web|title=Pinner Cricket Club home page|url=https://pinnercc.hitssports.com/|website=pinnercc.hitssports.com}} and a youth football club, Pinner United FC.{{Cite web|title=Pinner United FC|url=https://www.pinnerunitedfc.com/|website=pinner-utd-fc}} The area also has a golf course, Pinner Golf course.{{Cite web|title=PINNER HILL GOLF CLUB LTD|url=http://www.pinnerhillgc.co.uk/|website=www.pinnerhillgc.co.uk}}

In addition to numerous restaurants and a number of public houses, Pinner has an amateur theatre group, Pinner Players, who have been performing in the area since 1936 and currently stage productions at Pinner Village Hall{{Cite web|title=Pinner Village Hall: Available to hire for all occasions|url=https://www.pinnervillagehall.org.uk/|website=www.pinnervillagehall.org.uk}} off Chapel Lane.{{Cite web|title=Pinner Players Theatre Company|url=http://www.pinnerplayers.com/|website=Pinner Players Theatre Company}}

The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner Memorial Park was opened in 2016 and is dedicated to the work of the cartoonist William Heath Robinson.

Edward Lear makes reference to Pinner{{cite book|last1=Lear|first1=Edward|title=More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.|url=https://archive.org/details/morenonsensepic00leargoog|date=1872|publisher=R J Bush|location=London}} in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc:

There was an old person of Pinner,

As thin as a lath, if not thinner;

They dressed him in white,

And roll'd him up tight,

That elastic old person of Pinner.

H. G. Wells mentions Pinner in The War of the Worlds:

He 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.

• The Pinner Fair held in Pinner High Street features in Sir John Betjeman's 1973 BBC film Metro-Land.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bestofbetjeman0000betj|title=The Best of Betjeman|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2000|edition=2000|page=[https://archive.org/details/bestofbetjeman0000betj/page/228 228]|isbn=9780141184326|url-access=registration}}
• The BBC sitcom May to December (1989–1994) was set in Pinner.{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Mark|date=28 August 1999|title=Torquay: the horrible truth|newspaper=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/torquay-the-horrible-truth-1116255.html|access-date=16 March 2011}}
• During the 1990s the children's TV series Aquila was filmed in and around Pinner, particularly at the local Cannon Lane School.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
• Chucklevision, the children's TV series based on the Chuckle Brothers was also filmed in Pinner.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
• Between 2000 and 2006 Pinner was used for location footage for BBC sitcom My Hero, starring Ardal O'Hanlon as Thermoman.{{Citation|title=My Hero|date=4 February 2000|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233084/|type=Comedy, Fantasy, Romance|publisher=Big Bear Films|access-date=21 October 2020}}
• Channel 4's coming-of-age television teen sitcom The Inbetweeners, Season 1 (2008), Episode 2 "Bunk Off" was filmed on the High Street in Pinner.{{Citation|last=Anderson|first=Gordon|title=Bunk Off|date=1 May 2008|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228323/|type=Comedy|publisher=Kapital Entertainment|access-date=21 October 2020}}
• The 2009 film Nowhere Boy had a number of scenes filmed in Pinner, including outside the Queens Head Pub, Pinner High Street,{{cite web|title=December 2009 – Pinner High Street|url=http://filmlondon.org.uk/location_of_the_month_2009/assets/features/december_2009_-_pinner_high_street|access-date=16 March 2011|publisher=Film London|archive-date=16 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216171425/http://filmlondon.org.uk/location_of_the_month_2009/assets/features/december_2009_-_pinner_high_street|url-status=dead}}
• The 2012 film May I Kill U?, written and directed by Stuart Urban and starring Kevin Bishop, was also filmed in Pinner.{{cite web|author=addictedtoeddieblogspot|title=October 2013|date=7 October 2013|url=http://addictedtoeddie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/new-pictures-from-set-of-theory-of.html|access-date=18 January 2015|publisher=addictedtoeddieblogspot}}
• The documentary series, Great British Railway Journeys, Series 6 (2015), Episode 6, "Amersham to Regent's Park" features Michael Portillo in Pinner, where he finds out about a Victorian domestic goddess (Isabella Beeton) and whips up a pint of her fanciest ice cream.{{Cite web|title=Great British Railway Journeys|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ynntc|access-date=21 October 2020 |publisher=BBC}}
• BBC Radio 1's 24 Years at the Tap End (2011–) is Chris Stark's memoir of growing up in and around Pinner during the turn of the millennium.{{Cite web|title=Scott Mills – 24 Years at the Tap End – Season 2|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zbwbl|access-date=21 October 2020|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}
• BBC Radio 5 Live's hit podcast That Peter Crouch Podcast (2018–) has many references to Pinner, Hatch End and the surrounding areas.{{Cite web|title=That Peter Crouch Podcast|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kyljg|access-date=21 October 2020 |publisher=BBC Radio 5 Live}}
• Rocketman (2019), the biographical musical film based on the life and music of British musician Elton John, had a number of scenes filmed in and around Pinner. Oakmeade substituted for Pinner Hill Road as Elton John's childhood home{{Cite web|title=Rocketman Filming Locations: Pinner and Beyond|url=https://findthatlocation.com/blog/rocketman-filming-locations-pinner-and-beyond|access-date=8 May 2021|website=findthatlocation.com|language=en}} and Albury Drive as his father's home.
• The British dark comedy-drama spy thriller television series Killing Eve{{'}}s Season 3 (2020), Episode 5, is titled "Are You from Pinner?". This is in reference to the character Bor'ka's fondness of Elton John.{{cite web|last1=Harrington|first1=Delia|date=10 May 2020|title=Killing Eve Season 3 Episode 5 Review: Are You From Pinner?|url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/killing-eve-season-3-episode-5-review-are-you-from-pinner/|access-date=16 July 2020|website=Den of Geek}}{{Citation|last=Murphy|first=Shannon|title=Are You from Pinner?|date=10 May 2020 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11372504/ |type=Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller|access-date=21 October 2020}}

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File:Elton John on stage, 2008.jpg was born and grew up in Pinner]]

• Ronnie Barker and David Suchet were both one-time owners of 17th-century Elmdene in Church Lane.[http://www.pjbartlett.co.uk/Pinner%20History.htm Pinner Local History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019131645/http://pjbartlett.co.uk/Pinner%20History.htm |date=19 October 2016 }}. Retrieved 12 August 2008
• Samuel and Isabella Beeton lived on the Woodridings estate between 1856 and 1862, during which time Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was published.{{rp|155}}
• Derek Bell, motor racing driver, was born in Pinner.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025|reason=unsourced in linked article}}
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote Eugene Aram at Pinner Wood House in 1832.[http://www.pinnerlhs.org.uk/map-site/people.html Pinner Local History Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221081940/http://www.pinnerlhs.org.uk/map-site/people.html |date=21 February 2011 }}. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, Victorian novelist, feminist, satirist, was born in the village in 1884.{{cite web |title=Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett {{!}} Victorian novelist, feminist, satirist {{!}} Britannica |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/130377/Dame-Ivy-Compton-Burnett |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=12 August 2008 |language=en}}
• Daniel Dancer, the famed miser, was born in here in 1716.
• Charlie Dore, singer, was born here.
• Jo Durden-Smith, British documentary film maker, writer and journalist, was born here in 1941.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jo-durdensmith-451751.html Obituary of Jo Durden-Smith], The Independent, 5 June 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2008.
• Daniel Finkelstein is a Pinner resident and was created Baron Finkelstein of Pinner, in 2013.[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/f/27389/Daniel%20Finkelstein+FINKELSTEIN.aspx The Lord Finkelstein, OBE], Debrett's. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
• W. S. Gilbert, was a magistrate in Pinner from 1893 onwards.[http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/mdpemberton-wsg.htm Views of W. S. Gilbert] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025201812/http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/mdpemberton-wsg.htm |date=25 October 2006 }}. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
• Martin Gould, professional snooker player.
• Mehdi Hasan, journalist currently affiliated with NBC, was born and grew up in Pinner.
• Tony Hatch, composer of the Petula Clark hit "Downtown" and many other television themes, including the Neighbours theme, was born here.
• Bob Holness, the former host of quiz show Blockbusters, lived here.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2007/02/26/bob_holness_feature.shtml BBC Kent: Profile of Bob Holness]. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
• Peter Jacobs, Olympic fencer, was born here in 1938.
• Elton John, singer and songwriter grew up in Pinner Green and was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School.[http://www.eltonjohn.com/about/bio.jsp Elton John official website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715143032/http://www.eltonjohn.com/about/bio.jsp |date=15 July 2010 }}. Retrieved 12 August 2008.{{Cite web|date=12 June 2015|title=You could live in the house where Sir Elton John was born|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/goodbye-pinner-hill-road-inside-the-london-home-where-sir-elton-john-was-born-yours-for-just-525000-10314613.html|access-date=21 October 2020|website=Evening Standard|language=en}}
• Norman Kember, Christian pacifist activist and emeritus professor of biophysics, is a longtime resident of the town.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/no-word-on-fate-of-iraq-peace-hostages-519089.html 'No word on fate of Iraq peace hostages'], The Independent, 12 December 2005. Retrieved 14 August 2005.
• Brian Lane, pilot, (1917–1942) grew up in the village.
• Lee Latchford-Evans, singer, dancer, stage actor, and one of the five singers of the British pop group Steps, lives and works in Pinner.{{cite web |last1=Proctor |first1=Ian |title=Volent comedy' set in the mean streets of... here |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/volent-comedy-set-mean-streets-6016477 |website=MyLondon |access-date=6 February 2022 |language=en |date=24 September 2008}}
• Simon Le Bon, vocalist of post-punk rock band Duran Duran, grew up locally and attended the Pinner County Grammar School.
• Liza Lehmann, composer, lived at 'Nascot', Waxwell Lane, Pinner for several years after her marriage to Herbert Bedford in 1894.
• Caroline Alice Lejeune, film critic, lived here with her husband Edward Roffe Thompson, a journalist.
• Jane March, actress and model, grew up here before moving to the United States. Earlier in her career, March was referred to in the press as "The Sinner From Pinner".{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/the-original-sinner-6966382.html|title=The original sinner|last1=Bradberry|first1=Grace|publisher=The Evening Standard|date=23 January 2004|access-date=19 October 2020}}
• Agnes Marshall, whom most credit with{{Weasel inline|date=November 2022}} the invention of edible ice cream cones, had a country home there and died there in 1905.
• Patrick Moore, the television presenter and astronomer, was born in Pinner in 1923.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A13785816 www.bbc.co.uk]. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
• Horatia Nelson, daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, lived in Pinner from 1860 until her death in 1881.{{rp|155}}
• Lucy Porter, comedian, actress and writer lives in Pinner.{{cite web |title=Lucy Porter: The Witham, Barnard Castle |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/culture/15059551.lucy-porter-witham-barnard-castle/ |website=The Northern Echo |date=31 January 2017 |access-date=6 February 2022 |language=en}}
• Henry James Pye (poet laureate) retired to East End House in 1811.{{rp|11}}
• Joseph Raphson, mathematician, probably{{Weasel inline|date=November 2022}} baptised at Pinner church.{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=J. J. |last2=Robertson |first2=E. F. |title=Joseph Raphson |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Raphson/ |website=MacTutor |access-date=14 March 2022}}
• Heath Robinson, cartoonist, illustrator and artist, lived in Moss Lane, Pinner between 1913 and 1918.{{rp|192}} The Heath Robinson Museum is in Pinner Memorial Park.{{cite web |title=Heath Robinson Museum |url=https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org |website=Heath Robinson Museum |access-date=6 February 2022}}
• Michael Rosen, poet and children's author, lived in Pinner from the time he was born, in 1946, until 1962.{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/about.html|title=:: Michael Rosen – The Website ::|date=29 November 2016}}
• Chris Roycroft-Davis is a resident.
• Chris Stark, internationally renowned BBC Radio presenter grew up in and around Pinner.
• David "Screaming Lord" Sutch, who lived in nearby South Harrow, is buried in Pinner New Cemetery.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/380082.stm www.bbc.co.uk]. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
• Gordon Waller of Peter and Gordon lived with his family in the house called Elton, Elm Park Road, and went to St John's prep school before boarding at Westminster School.
• Molly Weir, best known for her role as the long-running character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost, lived in Pinner until her death in 2004.[http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst825.html The Gazetteer for Scotland]. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
• Bruce Welch, guitarist in The Shadows, lived in Pinner.
• Maude Valerie White, composer, lived in Love Lane, Pinner during the 1890s.

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Pinner Underground station was opened in 1885 and is on the Metropolitan line in London fare zone 5. In normal off-peak conditions the train takes approximately half an hour to Baker Street Underground station and approximately three-quarters of an hour to Aldgate Underground station.

Hatch End railway station was opened in 1842 and is on the London Overground Watford DC line in London fare zone 6. In normal off-peak conditions it roughly takes three-quarters of an hour to Euston railway station.

Public Transport in Pinner is governed by Transport for London.

The Metropolitan Quietway Cycle Route runs through Pinner, as well as street-running cycle lanes on Pinner Road and Eastcote Road.{{Cite web |last=McGirr |first=Andrew |title=Cycling in Harrow |url=https://www.harrow.gov.uk/road-maintenance-travel/cycling-harrow/2?categoryId=210280&documentId=12445 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=London Borough of Harrow |language=en}}

The Celandine Route from West Drayton terminates at Pinner Memorial Park.

The brown plaques are awarded by the Harrow Heritage Trust,{{cite web |title=Harrow Heritage Trust |url=https://www.harrowheritagetrust.org.uk/ |website=www.harrowheritagetrust.org.uk |access-date=16 October 2021}} who secure the protection, preservation, restoration and improvement of the character and amenities of the London Borough of Harrow.

• Queen's Head Public House on the High Street.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harrowheritagetrust.org.uk/plaques.php|title = Plaques | Harrow Heritage Trust}}
• Wax Well on Waxwell Lane.
• Elthorne Gate on the High Street.
• Grim's Dyke on Montesole Playing Fields.
• Pinner House on Church Lane.
• Pinner Hill Farm on Pinner Hill Road.

London's blue plaques scheme, run by English Heritage,{{Cite web|title=Blue Plaques|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=English Heritage}} celebrates the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked.

• Sir Ambrose Heal (1872–1959), "Furniture Designer and Retailer lived here 1901–1917", The Fives Court, Moss Lane{{Cite web|title=Ambrose Heal {{!}} Furniture Designer {{!}} Blue Plaques|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/ambrose-heal/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=English Heritage}}
• W. Heath Robinson (1872–1944), "Illustrator and comic artist lived here 1913–1918", 75 Moss Lane{{Cite news|title=W. Heath Robinson {{!}} Illustrator {{!}} Blue Plaques|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/william-heath-robinson/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=English Heritage}}

The architecture in Pinner has evolved greatly over the centuries. The majority of the architecture is conserved by private residents or by Harrow council's Conservation Team.{{Cite web|last=gangari|first=tariq|title=Conservation|url=https://www.harrow.gov.uk/planning-developments/biodiversity-conservation?categoryId=210273&documentId=12724|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Harrow Council|language=en}}

Norman, Gothic and Tudor architecture (1066–1603)

• Church of St John the Baptist on Church Lane{{Cite web|title=CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, Harrow – 1286312 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286312|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

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• Shops and Restaurants on the High Street{{Cite web|last=gangari|first=tariq|title=Conservation|url=https://www.harrow.gov.uk/planning-developments/biodiversity-conservation/6?categoryId=210273&documentId=12724|access-date=26 October 2020|website=Harrow Council|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=THE VICTORY PUBLIC HOUSE, Non Civil Parish – 1286035 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286035|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=7, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1358633 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358633|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=9, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1193639 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193639|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=11, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079698 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079698|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=25–27, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1193645 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193645|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=26, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1286041 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286041|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=29, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079699 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079699|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=33–35, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1286059 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1286059|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=34, 34A, 36, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1358634 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358634|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=BARN TO SOUTH OF NUMBER 38, Harrow – 1079705 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079705|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=58, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1193713 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193713|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Cottages and Farmhouse on Waxwell Lane{{Cite web|title=BEE COTTAGE, Harrow – 1079660 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079660|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=WAXWELL FARMHOUSE, Harrow – 1079661 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079661|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=MANOR COTTAGE MANOR HOUSE WAXWELL COTTAGE, Harrow – 1079659 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079659|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Dwellings on Moss Lane{{Cite web|title=TUDOR COTTAGE, Harrow – 1079672 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079672|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=EAST END FARM COTTAGE, Harrow – 1358620 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358620|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=EAST END HOUSE, Harrow – 1358657 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358657|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=EAST BARN TO EAST END FARM (PREMISES TO MCPHAIL BROS), Harrow – 1193851 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193851|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

Georgian architecture (1714–1811)

• Pinner House on Church Lane{{Cite web|title=PINNER HOUSE, Harrow – 1358615 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358615|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

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File:Pinner Police Station - geograph.org.uk - 1489751.jpg

• Shops, Restaurants and Public Houses on the High Street{{Cite web|title=18–24, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079703 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079703|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=The Queen's Head, Non Civil Parish – 1079700 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079700|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=32, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079704 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079704|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=37, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079701 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079701|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=The Hand in Hand Public House, Harrow – 1193708 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1193708|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=39, HIGH STREET, Harrow – 1079702 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079702|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=HAYWOOD HOUSE, Harrow – 1079706 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079706|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Pinner Park Farm House on George V Avenue{{Cite web|title=PINNER PARK FARMHOUSE, Harrow – 1079715 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079715|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Former Granary at Harrow Museum, originally located at Pinner Park Farm{{Cite web|title=Former Granary at Headstone Manor, Non Civil Parish – 1420464 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1420464|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

Victorian architecture (1837–1901)

• Pinner Station on Station Approach
• Pinner Police Station on Elm Park Road{{Cite web|title=Pinner Police Station including stable block, boundary wall, gate pier and fences, bollards and police lamps, Non Civil Parish – 1411163 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1411163|access-date=27 October 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

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• Pinner Hill Farm on Pinner Hill Road{{Cite web|title=TOOKE'S FOLLY AT PINNER HILL FARM, Harrow – 1079682 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079682|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=BARNS ON SOUTH AND WEST SIDES OF YARD AT PINNER HILL FARM, Harrow – 1194027 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1194027|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=PINNER HILL FARMHOUSE AND BRICK BARN TO REAR, Harrow – 1079681 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079681|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Pinner Hill Golf Club House on South View Road{{Cite web|title=A Brief History of Pinner Hill (researched and written by Ellie Pithers)|url=http://www.pinnerhill.org/id3.html|access-date=27 October 2020|website=www.pinnerhill.org|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031003352/http://www.pinnerhill.org/id3.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=PINNER HILL GOLF CLUB HOUSE, AND BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDING NORTHWARDS FROM CLUB HOUSE, Harrow – 1358625 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1358625|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

Metro-land architecture (1903–1939)

• Suburban prototypes on Cecil Park Estate{{Cite web|title=Metroland: the golden age of mock Tudor {{!}} MIDDLESEX: A ROUNDTRIP IN NOWHERE LAND|url=http://middlesexcountypress.com/?page_id=675|access-date=11 November 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=6 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606120126/http://middlesexcountypress.com/?page_id=675|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|last=Green, Oliver.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59997780|title=The London Underground : an illustrated history|date=1987|publisher=Ian Allan in association with the London Transport Museum|isbn=0-7110-1720-4|location=London|oclc=59997780}}{{Cite book|last=Jackson, Alan Arthur.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16277029|title=London's metropolitan railway|date=1986|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=0-7153-8839-8|location=Newton Abbot|oclc=16277029}}
• Tudor revival dwellings on Grange Estate
• Arts and Crafts dwellings on Pinnerwood Park Estate
• Cottages on Elm Park Road{{Cite web|title=TUDOR COTTAGE, Harrow – 1253922 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253922|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}

Art Deco architecture (1919–1939)

• Elm Park Court on Elm Park Road{{Cite web|title=ELM PARK COURT, AND ENTRANCE ARCH, Harrow – 1261409 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1261409|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Pinner Court on Pinner Road{{Cite web|title=PINNER COURT, Harrow – 1254195 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254195|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Harrow Fire Station on Pinner Road
• Pinner Wood School on Latimer Gardens{{Cite web|title=Our History|url=https://pinnerwood.harrow.sch.uk/our-history/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=PWS|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022173400/https://pinnerwood.harrow.sch.uk/our-history/|url-status=dead}}

Modern architecture (1945–1980)

• Roman Catholic Church of St Luke on Love Lane{{Cite web|title=Roman Catholic Church of St Luke, Non Civil Parish – 1429922 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1429922|access-date=11 November 2020|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}}
• Shops on Bishops Walk
• Shops on Barters Walk
• Dwellings on Nursery Road

Postmodern architecture (1980–present)

• Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner Memorial Park{{Cite web|title=Heath Robinson Museum|url=https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org|language=en}}
• Dwellings on Caulfield Gardens{{Cite web|date=30 October 2014|title=Final phase of five year regeneration begins|url=https://www.chg.org.uk/news/29628/final-phase-of-five-year-regeneration-begins/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=Catalyst housing association London and South East|language=en|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027101115/https://www.chg.org.uk/news/29628/final-phase-of-five-year-regeneration-begins/|url-status=dead}}
• Nursery in Montesole Playing Fields
• Flats on Marsh Road

• Church of St John the Baptist
• Pinner House
• Pinner Underground Station
• Metro-land
• Heath Robinson Museum

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• [http://www.pinnerlhs.org.uk/ Pinner Local History Society]

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