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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 east to west the parishes come in the
order shown in Table A.
Geology.
The District lies upon the great London clay bed, which
is capped on the higher land by patches of gravel of varying
thickness. In some places, notably in the north-east corner
of Harrow Weald, the subsoil water rises to within a foot or
18 inches of the surface of 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 principal Common
lands are those of Harrow Weald and Great Stanmore. The
area of the former is 34 acres, of the latter 121½ acres.
Section 2.
I have found some difficulty this year in procuring information
as to the number of inhabited houses in the District,
although Mr. Webb and Mr. Johnson have given me kind
assistance in the matter. I have not applied to the Assistant
Overseers, as it is apparently useless, but have based my
estimation of the population on the number of inhabited
houses last year, plus the new houses built this year, after
making allowance for those not occupied. My estimated
population therefore is 14,940.