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The. highest point in the District, 502 feet above
Ordnance datum, is on the Watford Road at the Hertfordshire
boundary. The lowest point, about 150 feet, is to be
found at the south-east corner of Pinner parish.
The District is distinctly a residential one, being somewhat
heavily timbered, and has a very small acreage of arable
land. The agricultural portion of it is laid down in grass,
and the chief agricultural product is hay.
Running from cast to west the parishes come in the
order shown in Table A.
Geology.
The district lies upon the great London clay bed, which
is cappcd on the higher land by patches of gravel of varying
thickness. In same places, notably in the north-east corncr
of Harrow Weald, the subsoil water rises to within a foot or
18. inches of the surface cf the gravel.
Public Open
Spaces.
Besides the Stanmore Cricket Ground (seven acres) Stanmore
Marsh (14 acres), the Little Common, Stanmore (6¼
acres), and the Pinner Beds (10 acres), the princijial Common
lands are those of Harrow Weald and Great Stanmore. The
area of the former is 34¾ acres, of the latter 121½ acres.
Section II.
I have again to thank Mr. Johnson, the Sanitary
Inspector, and the Assistant Overseers, for their kind help
in procuring the necessary information as to the number of
inhabited houses in the District. I am therefore able to
estimate the population as 12,924.
The following Table A shews the estimated population
to the middle of 1908, together with the deaths and death-rate
in each of the five parishes.