Editing Pinner (section)

==History==
[[File:pinnersign.jpg|thumb|Street sign]]
Pinner was originally a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]], first recorded in 1231 as ''Pinnora'',<ref name="clarke">{{cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=Patricia |title=A History of Pinner |date=2004 |publisher=Phillimore |location=Chichester, West Sussex |isbn=978-1860772870}}</ref>{{rp|11}} although the already archaic ''-ora'' (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than circa 900.<ref name="clarke"/>{{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'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Pinner|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref>

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.<ref name="clarke"/>{{rp|34}} The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from the late fifteenth century.<ref name="clarke"/>{{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.<ref name="clarke"/>{{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.<ref name="clarke"/>{{rp|25}} Pinner is also the site of one of the UK's oldest [[Charter fair|chartered fairs]], called Pinner Fair, which has been held annually since 1336.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Pinner lay within the historic county of [[Middlesex]]; it was located at the western end of the [[hundred (country subdivision)|hundred]] of [[Gore Hundred|Gore]], before it was in the [[Hendon Rural District]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 1965 it became a part of the London Borough of Harrow in the newly formed ceremonial county of Greater London.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Parish church===
Pinner's [[St John the Baptist, Pinner|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.<ref name="Weinreb">{{cite book|author1=[[Ben Weinreb]]|author2=[[Christopher Hibbert]]|title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]]|edition=reprint|year=1992|page=745|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]}}</ref>