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Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, 12.5 miles (20.1 km)...

Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north-west of Charing Cross. The area was in the county of Middlesex until 1965, when it was absorbed by the London Government Act 1963 into Greater London. The nearest London Underground station is Pinner on the Metropolitan Line. The nearest London Overground station is Hatch End Pinner was originally a hamlet, first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora, although the already archaic -ora (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than c.900. The oldest part of the village lies around the fourteenth-century parish church of St John the Baptist, at the junction of the present-day Paines Lane, High Street and Church Lane. The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth-century. Pinner has had an annual street fair since 1336 when it was granted by Royal Charter by Edward III; it remains popular today, being the last of its kind in Middlesex, and featured in Sir John Betjeman's BBC TV documentary Metro-land (1973). The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway –